Basketball time and the Living is Easy

Ok, it has been awhile and I left with a bitter taste in my mouth. Not that the taste is gone but life has moved forward. Heidi is through radiation and surgery and we are on toward chemo. Not sure what that will hold but it is a long and arduous road that will be chronicled I am certain.

But it is also basketball season. A season of therapy and one we enjoy beyond all measure.
I am a Lady Vols fan. Let that be known. Most who read this know this already. But I do like women's basketball in general. I am known to criticize anyone and everyone from their shooting style to their hair. I am petty. I am poetic. I am a fan.

And I have a pretty good Basketball Theology. More on that at a later date.
So today the Lady Vols are playing the University of Texas. At Knoxville, where they have hung the 7th...SEVENTH... National Championship banner. It is only halftime but here I go.....

1) I wish I were there but I forgot to look at the schedule! Yet if I had been there in person, I would have missed seeing Carolyn Peck on television. Carolyn as you may know is a Vandy grad, UT Assistant, Head Coach at Purdue, Miami Heat and Florida. And was my nemesis in the 10 and under breaststroke in the Knox County Swim Association. We went back and forth year to year winning the City Championship. Both of our parents had to take our birth certificates with them at the regional meets because I was the height I am now and well she was taller. But we were indeed both 10. And the there was the time my dad was the finish judge at the Jefferson County Flying Fish vs the Holston Hurricanes at Jefferson County. Carolyn and I were in lanes next to each other and she out touched me by literally a fingertip (as hers were longer). My dad called her the winner and I didn't speak to him for a week. And yes Carolyn remembers this as evidenced by a conversation several years ago at West Town Mall.

2) Second, Pam Ward needs to stop flirting so blatantly with her Tennessee girls. She called Carolyn the "pride of east Tennessee" and whenever Kara Lawson is on she continuously flirts about how smart Kara is. Which she is but she needs to find her own woman.

3) Mickie DeMoss looks old and haggard and her hair is too long. I love Mickie dearly and she can talk the ears off of an elephant but maybe she came out of retirement too soon.

4) Gail G is still dreamy and looks much healthier, certainly from the Texas air...oh wait she got divorced last year. Must be in the water.

5) Last year's Sydney Spencer is this year's Ashley Bjorkland. From Washington State. Think way back to Abby Conklin that lovable goof ball from UT who could slink up to the top of the key and land a three. Or think Katie Douglas doe eyes. Either way the girl can shoot. She is a freshman. I love her.