It’s really hard to believe that August is almost done and September starts tomorrow.
Along with the memories of football practice and getting new exchange students, summer also marked a time where for me to work as a camp nurse with The Concordia Language Villages. For 8 of the past 10 summers, I worked at CLV, [...]

There are two Iowa teams that the Metropolis Rugby Club plays every fall in it’s Division I schedule: Pearl City and the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Both teams have just owned us since I joined Metropolis back in 2006, and according to people who have been with the club longer, it has been a long, [...]

I found this posting http://cahiers-du-rugby.com/site/rubrique.php?idrubrique=66 From a link in a French blog from one of my favorite francophone rugby centric sites. ( http://fenetre-ovale.over-blog.com/ ) dealing with the subject of the French Cup of  quad rugby, or “La Coupe de France de rugby fauteuil”.
I currently work on a spinal cord injury/disorder unit at the VA Medical Center [...]

After the June internationals,  I thought the New Zealand All Blacks were going to finish at the bottom of this year’s Tri-Nations Competition with Australia and South Africa, given their poor performances against France and Italy. Add to that, their superstar fly half, Dan Carter was still just getting back into action, was not even [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it [...]

My wife had to go to Madison, Wisconsin to take the Wisconsin state board for funeral directors. (from time to time she gets clients who have to be buried in Wisconsin) After some discussion, we combined business and pleasure, so I joined along, and since my grandson Duncan has not yet met my wife’s mom [...]

Of the many August memories that I have, one of the strongest is that for many years, August meant the arrival of an AFS exchange student (AFS.org) to live with my family for the academic year.  Over the years, we hosted 12 exchange students, who came from(in order): Italy, Paraguay, Armenia, Brazil, France, Thailand, Japan, [...]

Going into today’s Tri-Nations match with Australia at Newlands in Cape Town, the Springboks knew that they would need a win, as this was going to be the last home game for the Springboks before going on the road for the rest of their Tri-Nations games at New Zealand and Australia.
One concern going in was [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s August and that next month will officially be autumn in our part of the world.
When I was in high school, this time of the year pretty much signaled the end of summer, because for those of us who played American Football at Cooper High School, the second week of [...]

One bit of sad news in the past few days was news from England about the passing of Sir Bobby Robson this past Friday after an 18 year battle against Cancer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8177945.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/4779033.stm
 He led England to the Semi-Finals of the FIFA World Cup back in 1990, Ipswich Town to FA Cup and UEFA Cup wins and a [...]