Tag: Sports
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Weekend Reading And Watching

Book of the Weekend: Home Is Where The Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose discovered through the great Barnes & Noble Vintage Horror Summer: VHS-Inspired Thrills & Chills with special edition designs and features Movies of the Weekend: Russell Crowe in The Pope’s Exorcist and The Exorcism and if there’s time, The Exorcist (1973) Sporting Events…
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Happy To Figure Out My Summer Sports Watching Schedule

Critérium du Dauphiné (June 2-9)…NBA Finals – Dallas Mavericks vs. Boston Celtics (June 6-23)…NHL Stanley Cup Final – Edmonton Oilers vs. Florida Panthers (June 8-24)…Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets in London (June 8-9) and all summer long on MLB.TV…Tour de Suisse (June 9-16)…U.S. Open Golf Championship (June 13-16)…UEFA Euro 2024…
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iPhone Journey – Day 43

Hopefully after a rainy start to the weekend there will be the chance to chase more clouds and fall colors this weekend. Although, between the rain, a Netflix series (The Fall of the House of Usher) and sports (Phillies/Diamondbacks, Michigan/Michigan State, Penn State/Ohio State, Lions/Ravens), it may take Harper dragging me out of the house…
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Favorites Of The Week

Coffee and fall walks…iPhoneography…Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies…Toronto Maple Leafs kicking off the season with a win…Detroit Lions…hanging out with the Halloween witches and skeletons…fall cupcakes…fall cookies…Pumpkin milkshake…the premier of Lessons In Chemistry on Apple TV+ today, based on a favorite novel by Bonnie Garmus…
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I’ve Been Pondering…

My lack of successful predictions. As we begin my all-time favorite sporting event, the first two rounds of March Madness, I remembered that I’ve never predicted a NCAA March Madness Final Four and I’ve definitely learned this month that I can’t predict the weather. My sports predictions have been so bad at times that my…
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Favorites Of The Week

Snow and soup season arrives…Sylvester Stallone and Tulsa King…Fabulous Wall Street Journal article comparing the unbelievable Buffalo Bills/Minnesota Vikings game last weekend to a dog stealing a car…Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry – A Conversation With Robin Roberts…first visit of trumpeter swans…great Michigan State Spartans basketball double overtime win over Kentucky…muttering constantly at the…
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Favorites Of The Week

Lunar eclipse…Harper pulling on the leash during every shot of the lunar eclipse…Notre Dame ranked #20 after a great win against Clemson…Exciting overtime win by LSU against Alabama…Clouds…Enjoying ice cream on the deck in November…Appreciating just a trickle of leaves left falling on the yard…Ticket To Paradise…The Suspect…Alex Ovechkin pass and most goals with one…
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Favorites Of The Week

NFL Hall of Fame game…Premier League season begins today…Breadsticks and Alfredo sauce…backyard visitors…one month closer to favorite month of the year…getting lost in paint samples…beautiful sunrise after a stormy night…watching the latest Minions movie this evening…
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Thursday Tidbits

Harper decided she wasn’t interested in the “Dry January” idea and she’s not sharing…Almost forgot what sunshine looked like until we actually had a few hours of blue skies last weekend…Binge-watch of the week was the wonderful Netflix documentary series Pretend It’s A City with Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz…Busy NHL GameCenter season with 116 straight…
