Real Life and Other Randomness

To everyone who knows me and knows how much I love Duke basketball, let me reassure you.  I am alive.  I am still breathing, and all breakab...

Last night, I got a call from a friend in England.  The call woke me up (although I claimed that it did not, I am sure), to talk about our m...

It's a cool spring morning in Texas, and there's a familiar scent in the air -- rivalry.  It seems to have drifted the 1,201 miles f...

Life can be a pretty frustrating endeavor sometimes.  It's unpredictable and challenging.  So when the people I depend on to keep it ste...

Remember when I confessed to y'all that I'd never been to the ocean? Well, check that one off the bucket list.  Sort of.  I guess...

I've been pretty down lately. Morose. Gloomy. Downtrodden. Plain ol' run-of-the-mill sad.  I've been angry. I've been doub...

So, this weekend, I took a trip up North to the beautiful Texas Panhandle to see my parents.  This is a pretty significant trip as it's ...