John’s baseball team is the Detroit Tigers and they had their first scrimmage yesterday. I’ve seen him play soccer so I had fairly low expectations for him. But he got a solid hit both times he was up. My sense that he might have a future in the sport occurred when I looked up to […]
This article was in last Sunday’s Post, but it stuck with me all week. The premise of the article was to place a high quality musician in a busy subway stop during morning rush hour and see if people would stop and listen. If you liked the article then reading the online chat with the […]
We awoke this morning to a dusting of snow spread confectioner sugar like over the green grass and flowers. In December we’d view this snow as great fun and promising. Now it just seems in the way and keeping us from doing things like mowing the lawn. Scotty thought it was too cold to mow […]
What caught my eye about this article was the author, Jim Fishel. He’s one of the Fort Hunt basketball coaches we really like. This article does a nice job of summing up why we like him. He brings the right attitude to coaching and makes it fun and rewarding to all his players. It is […]
I was rather disheartened by the fund raising reports on Monday. It seemed that nothing could stop Hillary’s democratic nomination. And while I wouldn’t mind voting for her, I’m still convinced she’ll never win the general election because all the Clinton haters will be mobilized and vote for whoever her opponent is.
But today’s report […]
Monday was not only opening day for the nationals it was the first day of practice for the Fort Hunt Youth Baseball A league. Scotty and John attended both. And loved both. The Nats didn’t play well, but they sat with Roger and Kate Trudeau so the company was very good. The weather was perfect […]
I found this front page NYT article fasicnating and depressing. Fastinating because we see the high expectations for high school students with the stress on building resumes with top classes and lots of extracurriculars. The depressing part came at the end of the story when the smart, interesting, likable, unique girl was rejected by Williams, […]
Last Saturday on our way to the “Kids’ I Did It Run” John and I found a snake on the front steps. Fortunantly it was only about 12 inches long. It was upside down and curled into a tight ball which lead us to believe that the kitten delivered it there. We put it into […]
Last week John was looking forward to waking up early and putting into place his April Fools plans. Saturday night I pointed out he didn’t have to get up too early because I’d probably sleep until 7:30 and everyone else would be up much later than me. I awoke about 7:20 to find a bag […]