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Will Ref For Gas

Posted on August 21st, 2008 | 5 comments

When your soccer loving daughter becomes a referee, there’s definite money to be made. Twenty bucks a game for several games on a given weekend is way better pay than babysitting. So when she doesn’t want to ref anymore, you know that something serious is up. What could keep a teenage girl from scoring serious [...]

Soccer, Friends, and Wine

Posted on August 11th, 2008 | 13 comments

Nothing like driving your kids to wine country for a soccer tournament, especially when you get along great with the other team parents. A totally different experience than taking a hot date on a spontaneous wine-tasting fling. But that’s the two sides of being a single parent. Wine and good company are fabulous ingredients, either [...]

Training with soccer moms for the Napa Valley Marathon

Posted on February 18th, 2008 | 2 comments

A few years ago, a group of neighborhood soccer moms asked me to train with them for the Napa Valley Marathon. I’d just turned forty and was an avid cyclist who’d left hill workouts, interval training, and twenty-mile runs well behind me.
“I can give you some tips,” I said. “But my serious running days are [...]