32 degrees

It’s 32 degrees outside; dark, cold, and wet.  In a little over an hour, my husband and I will venture out into the hostile elements to sit in a football stadium and support our Coley.  When I spoke with a co-worker about our plans for tonight earlier today, I found myself singing Bobby Caldwell’s “What […]

All For Football

As our family fast approaches what could possibly be the end of our intimate relationship with football as my older son finishes college and the younger high school, I’ve found myself overwhelmed with emotion and confronted with just how much love for and indebtedness to football I have.
My personal relationship with football has spanned the […]

That Girl

I went to Dallas last weekend to watch my Buffs get beat by the Aggies.  Grrrr!  My family and I, around 30 people deep, drove from Dallas to College Station to watch the game and cheer on Ryan.  It was the first time for most of them to meet That Girl, or Tara, Ry’s wife.  […]

My Son . . . The Football Superstar!!!!


Going For It!

This past weekend was full of reunions.  The CU Buffs Football program had their annual fund-raising event that drew former players from previous eras and several states across the nation.  I saw guys that I hadn’t seen in years.  It was very cool.  But as much as I enjoyed seeing our old friends, I most […]

What I Remember

Immediately after reading today’s My Utmost For His Highest, I found myself on my knees praying by my bedside for my friends and family.  I was on my knees.  This was kind of remarkable because I almost never pray on my knees.  I pray laying in bed, in the shower, driving, cooking, sitting, but rarely […]

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Baggy jeans. Big white T’s. Dreadlocks. Hip Hop Lover. Side Kick Text-Messager. Football Player. That is my son Cole. He is, among other things, fairly typical of young Black men influenced too well by MTV and BET. He has, what he likes to call, a […]

Picture This

Another Audrey Post:
Yesterday we had quite a setback on this road to healing, or at least I did - I think. Because of a misunderstanding too broad to capture here, the hospital did not, in fact, take a picture of baby Audrey like we thought they would. So, no picture. This matters […]

Telling the Future

 Let me tell you what’s going to happen: after my husband golfs today, he’s gonna come home with a sore back. Yesterday, he cooked an absolutely brilliant meal (braised short ribs and pablano pepper potatoes) and was doing some pretty heavy lifting of our two, huge le cuissant dutch ovens. After we ate […]

Can Somebody Pray?

For a couple of days now, I’ve noticed that my forehead is tender to the touch. When I run my fingers across it, it’s sore, sensitive and hurts . . . like the way your skin feels before you get the flu, kind of achy. Curious. It wasn’t until yesterday that […]

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