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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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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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MeLinda POV: you’re going the wrong way
First of all, thank you to Lee for writing the first guest post here at Next Door To Normal. I didn’t ask him to write it. In fact, we hadn’t talked about this mishap on our road trip until he asked me to read a draft of his post. I was saving that conversation for the next therapy session :-o It was interesting to know what was going through his mind and so I decided to share my point of view during this same portion of our 2,500-mile road trip from Kansas to Mexico and back. Lee is the driver on trips and I am the navigator. We settled into…
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Lee POV: you’re going the wrong way
Guest post by Lee – see MeLinda’s version of the same story on her post I am the driver. When we go on trips my job is to get behind the wheel and drive. So when we made our drive to Big Bend National Park I was behind the wheel for the whole drive. MeLinda’s job is navigator, restaurant locator and to sit there and look pretty. For those who know me I don’t have the greatest sense of direction but sooner or later I will find my way to the destination. MeLinda is my navigational security blanket and most times I shut down my brain when driving. When I’m…