Over a recent weekend with family a few of us took part in pickle ball games. If you’ve never played, it’s kind of in between tennis and ping pong, with a few rules unique to itself. Anyone who knows me knows I’m competitive in just about anything, so while pickle ball is really fun, ultimatelyContinue reading “Pickleball – a new activity I hate to lose”
Tag Archives: Florida
We needed a bigger boat – catching a shark in the Gulf of Mexico
I didn’t expect to catch something so big– wait, this is fishing– I didn’t expect to catch anything! But there we were rocking back and forth 40 miles from the closest safe place. Yes, in my world, land is safe and ocean is scary. It’s where where people get their limbs bit off by sharksContinue reading “We needed a bigger boat – catching a shark in the Gulf of Mexico”
A lesson from the bench
Hi there! You might think the title of this post is something related to a judge’s bench. Or a work bench. Wouldn’t that be so clever? Well, no. I’m not a judge and I don’t make things out of wood. This goes all the way back to middle school basketball. Yep, I was one ofContinue reading “A lesson from the bench”
Whoot or Whoomp? Either way, There It Is!
The year was 1993. I’m a young high school student in Miami, Florida, mostly just focused on where I’d sit on the bench for each school basketball game and which girl I would like but never talk to. One thing I loved then (and still love now) is music. This particular year something happened inContinue reading “Whoot or Whoomp? Either way, There It Is!”
Bird book. A book of birds. From 1983.
It’s so weird that when you become interested in something, you see that thing everywhere you go. Know what I mean? Like, when you like a certain kind of car, you see that exact car all over town. It’s strange. It happened to me recently with birds, of all things. When I was in FloridaContinue reading “Bird book. A book of birds. From 1983.”
Out of the Wilderness 