Regular Life

This post is about two more firsts in my life — one just fine and one kind of scary.
Sunday afternoon, Ben and I joined He B and his son for a football game. It wasn’t NFL. Heck, it wasn’t even AFL. Nope, this was IFL.
For those I lost after the first acronym, [...]

There’s nothing I could say that this video doesn’t — but anybody reading here for very long knows that rarely slows me down. I’m no expert at how an animal feels, however, so I’ll just present my little video and go on about my day (er, um, night).
I will say that I laughed heartily [...]

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How many sports encourage fan participation? I don’t mean doing the wave or catching a foul ball. I mean breaking up a play.
I attended such a game a couple weeks ago, and it has earned a [...]

There’s a little bustling going on in our house right now. Shannon busily packs up a brown grocery bag with light tortilla chips and a homemade southwest dressing for the huge chicken-strip salad she made.
Personally, I’m going straight for the chili dogs when we get there.
You see, we’re going to watch the Super Bowl [...]

Beat Missouri
In the Cotton Bowl, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Central on New Year’s Day.

Ben was ready last weekend.
Let’s hope the Arkansas Razorbacks are today.

“Just going for the ball, I swear!”
“Well, you got’em both. Now get off me!”
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Yesterday’s post was nearly 2,000 words, so now I bring you pictures, which I’ve heard are worth 1,000 each (but take a lot less of your time).
These are just a few samples of the rainy adventure [...]

I wrote this several years ago, originally with the intent to make it a column in the newspaper where I worked as a reporter. I never could pare it down enough to get it in, and it had a few potentially indecent passages. So here it is, in time for the upcoming Arkansas-Auburn game Saturday [...]