As you gear up for March Madness, check out this great women's basketball time-line - from Helen Wheelock of Women'sBasketballOnline.com. Looking at the time-line that runs through the '70's makes me feel a whole lot better about losing to the West Chester State freshman team year after year after year. Click to continue reading...

Wow - the sun is gorgeous, coming up over the eastern horizon this morning. (Horizon is one of those words that I can't for the life of me seem to remember how to spell. Every time I come to the last syllable, I make the wrong choice and put an "e" in there [...] Click to continue reading...

Okay, of that group, which one(s) would you put your money on? Citi had a good day and the market bounced ... meanwhile, Newsweek has put out a great piece outlining the warring amongst the rich - a greed-fed battle they dub "the war between the estates." In the past two years, since the market peaked, investors [. Click to continue reading...

Phew - I feel like it's been a long time since I sat down with some good strong coffee and just caught up here. There's lots of news in the soccer world as the WPS season kick-off is just weeks away!  March 29th, to be exact.  (I should probably think about taking a day or two [...] Click to continue reading...

First off, you have to watch this video and sign the petition.  It addresses the sad and dangerous fact that "on December 19, 2008, Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and seeking to nullify the marriages of 18,000 devoted same-sex couples solemnized before [. Click to continue reading...

I'm loving the warmer temps here in NH, as the sun rises on this February Sunday! Have you heard of Jennifer Figge?  She just completed the amazing feat of swimming from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad ... at the age of 56.  (And I can't even get myself to exercise for 15 minutes these days!)  [. Click to continue reading...

Sounds ominous, I now ... but I'm just talking about the beginning of the end of the month, here.  It's been a frozen, snowy January - in fact I can't remember the last time I saw bare ground here in NH.  Not that I'm complaining.  So long as it's mostly snow (as opposed to ice) [...] Click to continue reading...

It feels like Alaska here in NH this morning - and so my thoughts turn naturally to Sarah Palin.  She is a busy gal, you betcha. Everyone's read, if they follow her at all, about how she is blaming the press for the public's perceptions of her ... and stepping up to protect her family from [...] Click to continue reading...

Have you been having trouble this week keeping track of what day it is?  I'm not complaining about the Thursday Holidays, mind you - but it's made for some serious disorientation.  Nice and quiet at work, though.  I've been digging through things I hadn't gotten to for months, and my in-box is down to just [. Click to continue reading...