So here we are in another fun election year. To say Ric and I enjoy politics would be an understatement. We love watching the returns on election night and have friends over to watch the Presidential debates. We are dorky concerned citizens that enjoy the fun of election year. At least the latter part of it. Read more
Hail to the hopeful Chief
Waiting for the 2012 Debate Box Set
I’ve been a political junkie since 1992 when I was a freshman in high school. That year, in our social studies class, we watched as presidential candidates — everyone from Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown to George Bush and H. Ross Perot — duked it out on national TV and on the front pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Read more
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Tags: Election 2012, Hot Topic, politics
Pujols: Our family tradition
My wife sent me an email this morning that read: “I know this is stupid, but I’m still so sad about Pujols.”
I responded: “It’s not stupid. I’m sad too. In fact, I want to write about it.”
So here we go.
Ouf family loves Albert. When my oldest kid was 2 or 3, he made us call him Pujols. He wouldn’t answer to his real name, only Pujols. He wore a little baseball cap with the Number 5. He had a Pujols jersey. A poster of baseball’s best player donned his wall. Read more