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Don’t forget to enter the Just Write Summer Reading Contest! Get out. Get out of your house, get out of your office, get out of your car. It’s Spring, almost Summer, so take a walk, get some fresh air. I don’t know about you but I’ve been cooped up inside for most of the winter and now it’s time to get out. I live in Nashville and I’m lucky enough to be able to take a walk to Centennial Park and back on my lunch break. If I can’t make time for that I climb the stairs of the parking garage next door. If I had a little longer I might take a book. Here are a few suggestions to get your blood flowing: Anyone who listens to NPR regularly will probably know Frank Deford as the curmudgeonly, often sarcastic commentator who’s as dead on the mark with his attacks on stupidity in the sports world as he is with his praise for its heroes. It’s a little hard to reconcile that persona with the author of An American Summer (Sourcebooks, 2002), a first-person novel about a fourteen year old boy who befriends a twenty-three year old woman in a wheelchair. Christy has just moved to Baltimore, and Kathryn, a former swimmer now crippled by polio, find they have something to offer each other. Deford avoids being sentimental, and An American Summer is the perfect book for the If you’re a soccer fan, or just a fan of the Women’s United Soccer Association, or you want to read about a true hero and athlete, check out Brandi Chastain’s book It’s Not About The Bra. It’s an excellent reminder that, when life throws you a curve ball, you kick–or hit, dribble, punt, or put–it right back.
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interminable hour after you’ve just eaten and you can’t swim.
Always great advice. I do need to get out of the office more at lunch time and check out the women’s soccer practice.
How old are you?