Category: Thoughts

For some reason I’ve been thinking about people’s use of the words Mandatory and Required lately. It’s probably because it’s getting closer to tryout season, which reminds me of coaches using these words poorly. I’ve heard several coaches say a tuck is required to be on their team. They print it on their tryout flyers…

My friend Sam sent me this email and I found it amusing. You are driving down the road in your 2-seater sports car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: An old lady who looks as if she is about to…

Stating the Bottom Line Up Front is a way of talking to people that gets straight to the point. Have you ever asked someone what time to pick them up or meet them someplace and their answer goes some thing like: Well, I have to do this, and this, and this which will take about…

Congratulations to David & Kendall on their engagement. I no longer have my 859 area code phone. I’ve been thinking about change a lot lately. I probably should say I been thinking about the lack of change because too often people want something to change, but don’t want to change anything they are doing to…

It’s now the time of year that I travel every week. It usually throws me off my regular schedule a little, but often gives me something to write about. I’m guessing the story of this weekend will be the traveling itself since snow has brought much of the Southeast to a crawl. My flights are…

Human errors in sports are a reality. They’ve change the results of games and cost people a spot in the record books, just ask Armando Galarraga. What should we do to try to eliminate these? Football has a challenge system allowing the coach to ask for a couple of plays a game to be reviewed.…

Twenty Eleven is here. Congrats to everyone that made it. I’m making this year a selfish year, but I don’t mean that in a bad or conceited way. I mean it’s a year to get everything back on track following the events of the past few years. So what’s in store for 2011? Friends &…

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011. I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The…

Goodbye 2010. You won’t go down as being my favorite year, but there were some good times. So to all my friends and family in Wisconsin, Kansas City, Kentucky, UK, Mississippi, Southern Miss, Virginia, DC, George Mason, UCA, Showtime Spirit, CMC, and cheerleading in general: Happy New Year!

I’ll keep this in mind if I ever get married. Man Charged with Felony for Reading His Wife’s E-mail to Track an Affair

The other day I was thinking in the car, which is a way of saying I was over-analyzing something simple and turning it into something difficult. The thoughts this time centered around forgiveness, specifically what it takes to forgive someone. So let’s start by having our friends at Webster define Forgiveness: the act of forgiving…

The USA Today published a story about a 12 year old that is going to be tried as an adult. I disagree with minors being tried as adults because I don’t think it’s right to say someone is too young and irresponsible to drive, vote, or drink, but when they make a mistake, albeit a…

I read this article on CNN and thought I would share it. I’ll probably start linking to more articles I find interesting since I haven’t been writing anything interesting lately. Parents, Don’t Blame Happy Meals

I’ve realized the more I travel the more I write. With competition season coming this may mean I return to writing at least once a week, as I did last competition season, but I won’t make any promises. I think I write because I spend too much time by myself on planes and in airports…

Yesterday CNN published Binge drinking, pot may harm teen brains. I’m not trying to downplay the effects of binge drinking or pot, but is this really news? Even the teens with damaged brains from binge drinking and smoking pot know, and have known for a long time, that it harms their brains.

One of my best friends got married in Hawaii this weekend and I wanted to take a moment to say Congratulations.

September has come and almost gone and I haven’t written once on my own site this month. Unfortunately this is the extent of it for this month.

This morning I checked my email and as usual had dozens of spam messages. The one that caught me of guard was one for 1% off Viagra. Have times gotten so hard that spammers can only offer a 1% discount? Please forgive the pun.

Sue sent me this video. The song that takes up the first 45 seconds is boring, but some of the stuff after is pretty impressive.

The best way to communicate with someone is the way they want to be communicated with. Some people love text messages, some emails, others phone calls. If you are trying to reach out to someone you need to figure out their preference and use it. Using your preference may not get you too far. For…

I’ve been slacking again so I’ll give the cliffs notes version of the past few months. I may fill in some details later, but won’t make any promises now. I was in Atlanta for a few days at a cheerleading competition, imagine that. I met up with King Harrison in person for the first time…

I have a problem with the NCAA right now, specifically the NCAA Clearinghouse. The job of the Clearinghouse is to let you know if an athlete is eligible to play. If the Clearinghouse gives a green light, the kid should be able to play without future penalty to the school. If the Clearinghouse later learns…

Insanity is doing the same thing while expecting a different result.

I’m not sure who wrote this, but I found it amusing. NSFW. I see this question posted with some regularity in the personals section, so I thought I’d take a minute to explain things to the ladies out there that haven’t figured it out. What happened to all the nice guys? The answer is simple:…