A friend of mine sent me an email last week with the subject header: “I Never Thought I’d Be That Crazy Hockey Parent”. I took a second glance at who wrote it, because I know a lot of hockey parents, and the running list I keep of people […]
For many years I joked I was going to homeschool our kids through junior high. My plan was to keep them home during the maturation years and then put them back with their peers when they were high schoolers. I remember my own time in middle school as moderately uncomfortable, […]
Winning feels good. Scoring goals, having a shutout, and performing well feels good. Losing hurts, as does poor performance or lack of production. From the perspective of an athlete who has felt all of those emotions as a player, I still struggle with how to get rid of those feelings when I watch […]
Phew. My least favorite time of year is over. The evaluations are done, the teams are named, and although it was not a painless process in our house this year, it was a time for significant growth for all of us. Last week, as though perfectly timed with […]
I never thought I would play professional sports. My husband thought he might. I made the misstep last night of telling our 12-year-old that the chances of him becoming a professional hockey player are pretty miniscule. I struggled with the reaction of both my husband and my son as they told me I was […]
I spend my weekends surrounded by fans. This weekend, there were fans in my family room watching Thanksgiving football. There were cheering and jeering fans at Buffalo Wild Wings and there were fans at each of the hockey games I attended too. The thing is, I’m a pretty pathetic fan. I […]
It’s an honor to be asked to wear that captain’s band. I was fortunate enough to wear a number of captain’s bands in my playing days, but today’s post is not about those who wear the band, but rather those who don’t. When I was a junior in high […]
Shaking hands with an opponent is supposed to be a sign of good sportsmanship. I don’t agree. It’s not that you shake hands…it’s HOW you shake hands that matters. After emotionally-charged soccer or basketball games, I always lined up with my teammates to go through the ritual post-game congratulations. […]
Yes. I have started jazzercise. For those of you who knew me as a college athlete, or as a high school athlete, or as a ridiculously competitive kid…this may be hard to picture. I admit, it was a little hard for me to visualize for myself, since my […]
We spend a lot of our time in cars headed to practices and games. We spend even more time on the fields and in the rinks where the cars end up. We tell people we are a sporting family, but it is really important to us to maintain […]
For the Team 