Wife Debbie, daughter Clarissa and I visited daughter Miranda and her husband Ben the weekend before last in Blacksburg, VA. Had a wonderful time with them and their two cute pooches. We visited the Anatomy Lab at the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (“VCOM”) where Ben’s a 2nd year med student. We saw the incredible engineering of the human body by looking a the cadaver of an 80 year lady. Truly remarkable how all these body systems and specialized organs exist in such close proximity to each other in a tiny 5 foot, 90 pound body. Miranda and Ben will be moving to the Charlotte, NC area in late July. Ben will be doing his 3rd year of med school at a hospital in nearby Salisbury, NC.
Daughter Natasha just returned from a trip with the University of Louisville Cardinals’ field hockey team to Buenos Aries, Argentina. They played for club teams there. Tash wrote a blog entry that’s on the U of L field hockey web site. They saw the gauchos and visited the gravesite of Eva Perron. Tash said nobody else on the team knew about or had heard of any of the songs from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Evita”. I had asked Tash if she and her friends were going around singing: “What’s new Buenos Aries…” or “Don’t cry for me Argentina”. She officially starts spring practice now and has a scrimmage at the University of Indiana this Saturday. Classes at U of L end the week before the Kentucky Derby, so Tash should be home all of May and, hopefully much of June.
Clarissa is at lacrosse camp this week with her high school team. So Deb and I empty nesters for a few more days. They start their season 4/1 against Thomas Worthington. C’s been playing a lot of field hockey through the winter with the Coyote Club team. The Coyotes finished 2nd in a National Indoor Tournament (“NIT”) qualifier in St. Louis in late January and then competed in the NIT in Virginia March 5-7. For playing in a highly ranked pool, they did very well. They finished 3-4.
Grandma and Uncle Dan, Ben and Miranda are planning on being here for the Easter weekend.
I get the honor of leading the next two Saturday morning Bible studies. We’re in chapters 2-3 of Ephesians. Been losing some weight. Down to around 240 from about 255. A lot of exercise and a lot of eating produce.
