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Pardon the interruption – I got lost in the wheat
Well it’s been a crazy start to April & I’ve yet to make a post this month. The more activity in my life (which means more blog material), the less time I have to actually blog! It has been a good learning experience, too, that it can be tough to blog while traveling. I did a decent job of sharing the trip on Facebook in real-time but I couldn’t go into much detail there. For those of you living in Lawrence, Kansas, you may not have noticed this great basketball tournament going on! The Wichita State Shockers made a historic run to make it to the Final Four so the past…
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What’s that smell? It’s superstition and sports
Have you noticed that during March Madness superstition in sports seems to ramp up? People be crazy. Other people, of course, not me :) After watching Wichita State beat Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament last weekend, Lee mentioned that the WSU T-shirt he was wearing had done its job – he had pulled it from “near” the dirty clothes to wear Saturday night because when he wore it Thursday, the Shockers had also won their game. {Seinfeld fans: I think this is the same as the pastry that George ate after it was “hovering” in the trash} Lee’s done this before – in fact,…
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Tripping: A safari museum in Kansas? Yep!
I’m starting to add some of my past published travel articles to my writing and photography portfolio. Here’s one that was published in The Wichita Eagle several years ago. I didn’t take photos, we used photographs the museum provided. Martin & Osa Johnson were unlikely world adventurers from southeast Kansas. The child-free couple explored a world that was inaccessible to so many in the 1920 and 1930s. Their photography, film and writing inspired and educated many who would never experience these places and people first-hand. Today, their material offers a glimpse at culture and wilderness that has since vanished. It’s very cool to see their influence in modern pop culture, too: a clothing line…
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Admitting when you’re wrong
So Lee and I have both received some texts in the past 12 hours since Wichita State beat No. 1 Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tourney. They say the same thing: am I going to admit to Lee that I was wrong when I wrote this in a post earlier this year: I contend that the best Missouri Valley Conference team would not have an easy game against the middle-of-the-pack teams in the big-boy conferences and would certainly lose to the top teams in those conferences. I love going to Wichita State University games but as I said earlier, overall the level of play in…
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The influence of an aunt
I realized something recently that I really should have realized years ago – I have always had a role model of a child-free woman right here in my own family! My Aunt Linda, my mom’s sister and the woman I was named after, was child-free. I’m not sure how I missed this until now…other than the fact that our situations are quite different. While I’m child-free by choice, my aunt was child-free by chance. And thanks to my Uncle Skip, she had a six-pack of stepdaughters. So any impact on my decision to not have children would have been subconscious. We never discussed it; in fact, I don’t know the…