If you ever played basketball, or raised someone who played basketball or…breathed, you would have loved watching LSU battle Iowa in the the Elite Eight round of the women’s NCAA tournament Monday night. The game featured everything we’ve all come to love about sports — an epic battle between two icons, a telescopic look at [...]
If you want to meet a Wisconsinite, just wander down to Alabama during spring break. You’ll find us, and only us, chillin’ in a lukewarm pool or a frankly cold ocean, blue-lipped and determined to enjoy the amenities. Both anecdotal and causal evidence supports this statement. With the air temperature hovering just under 60 degrees, [...]
We had to add a leaf to Grandma Mary Jane's dining room table for Easter brunch this year, which meant we got to grow our roots as well. I use the word brunch loosely here because we had no eggs ( someone I know --it's me -- doesn't like them), no ham because the woman [...]
All roads should lead through Tupelo, Mississippi like ours did on a recent Spring Break trip. We SHAKE, RATTLED AND ROLLed into that little town, a MESS OF BLUES from TOO MUCH time on the road “PLEASE RELEASE ME from this car,” a U.S.MALE called from the backseat, where’d he’d been trapped for 500 MILES. [...]
Yesterday morning at breakfast I issued a kindness challenge to my people. I read it on a Random Acts of Kindness Instagram post and it went like this: “Share gratitude with someone who has made you a better person.” Then I promptly forgot about it. Last night, my husband mumbled as we nodded off. “You’re [...]