Friday night Scotty went to the high school semi-regionals held at the Patriot Center. His two reasons were TC was one of the teams and the other team has a really great, nationally ranked player and he always likes the opportunity to see players who might go pro play in college. While he encouraged me […]
Caroline has been putting together her essays for her Italy SYA application. One answers the question of what are the three things you would bring for a year on a desert Island. Her third choice is the book War and Peace since it is something everyone should read and she’ll have the time to do […]
This is the kind of week which makes you really appreciate a private school education. On Tuesday Caroline heard a lecture by Ted Kooser, named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2004 and one of Uncle’s favorites, sat in on a question and answer session with Kooser in an English class, and went to the Metropolitan Museum […]
The Fort Hunt 12-13 girls league doesn’t really keep track of scoring percentages (I know because I’m the league manager), but if they did Caitlin would be the leader with 100%. This is because she actually played a game last night, took two shots, and made them both. This was her first game of the […]
The Post Web site had a headline about Shani vs. the Hottie so I thought I could refer to them that way, too. The rivalry between Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick is something you’d really expect out of women figure skaters. Despite Hendrick’s movie star looks (hence the Hottie title) I’m a Shani fan, but […]
My favorite Olympic blog has been a little obsessed with curling – talking about both the songs that fans have been making up and the growing stardom of Italy’s Joel Retornaz. The Post featured an article on him today.
We got to actually watch curling when we visited Uncle Bobby Joy since Andrea was there. […]
My Olympic channel hasn’t included any ice hockey but I’ve been paying a bit of attention to the women’s team mainly because they came and played a game at Westminster. Against the boys. The boys won. I don’t really know how good the Westminster boys are, but it is interesting to think they could have […]
Yesterdays Post Outlook section contained, “Why I Published Those Cartoons” by Flemming Rose and after reading it I think he was correct to fight as he puts it, “increasing limits on self-censorship.” Or, in more detail:
“By contrast, I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears […]
I like the Snowboard Cross, too – its fun and exciting to watch. I’ve been watching the Olympics every night and the program really does need something to bring in viewers. I feel like we are seeing a lot of the main sports over and over and not getting a sense of the wide variety […]
My favorite sport is Snowboard Cross.