Matt and I are always in awe of how wrapped up fans can get in sports.  We just cannot grasp the rioting and fights that break out.  I understand emotional investment in sport because I have been having annual heart attacks watching the San Antonio Spurs since 1999.  I’m sure I watched some Spurs games …

I recently watched a documentary called “Food Matters”.  The film argues for more vitamins, less drugs, better food.  The “pill for every ill” mantra is one I’m guilty of ignorantly adopting.  Not that a pop a ton of pills, I just trust that whatever the doctor gives me will be good stuff.  One doctor in …

My neighbor is doing something called #100happydays, where she posts things/sights/people that make her happy.  In turn, it makes me happy, so I like her idea.  There are so many people who are happy despite their poverty, their war-torn surroundings, their seemingly miserable conditions.  Here in the land of the free and home of the …

I went to a wedding last weekend. It was lovely in every way, which is representative of the sweet bride, my cousin Kristen.  Her groom seems like a stellar person too.  At the wedding reception I was placed at a table with my brother and sis-in-law, my mama’s cousin and spouse, and a friendly couple …