First to go and last to catch up. This could describe how I feel in any running race ever, but I mean it here as a description of sleep while in college. College kids — we party, stay up late, sleep in till noon and skip class all the time, right? Well, maybe not at […]
Me with my six-week friend – my hefty sling. The sling life. For six weeks, my right arm sat idle on the foam piece around my waist secured by a sling. The Velcro attached stress ball stuck out from the foam bed. I named the ball Frank. Frank kept my fingers moving, even though my […]
The Kelly Barnes Dam broke loose and Greg Bandy’s life shook. The whelming flood took 39 lives on the morning of Nov. 6, 1977. As most people would after witnessing such a horrific event, Bandy asked the question “Why am I still alive?” The scene sounds like a movie. And maybe one day it will […]
During my last tennis match at Grove City, my strings broke and I used my coach’s racquet. The heavy feeling of a new object threw me off. I lost the exhibition match, ending my career in a let down. Let me just say, this is no bashing of playing college sports. Playing varsity tennis taught […]