When No One is Looking--Thoughts on Family

Every single one of us has opinion on family, because every one of us came from one.  I know my family was one that many would not be able to relate to 'cause people just didn't get beat up and verbally assaulted on a regular basis like we did in our family.  And now, we live scattered around the countryside, far outside of a quick drive for mom's cooking.  One generation before ours was equally scattered and equally, if not more, abused.  But the family hasn't always been like this.

Lessons from Football

In life, we have a lot of downtime.  We all know this--in some form--in the back of our minds.  Our lives are so full of stuff, but at the end of the day, most of it doesn't really matter.  But we know that some of it does matter.

A while back during the NFL playoff season, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal that broke down the broadcast by, well, the minute and found that during the course of the television broadcast of the game, very little football is actually being played.  Indeed, in the whole of a 3+ hour broadcast, the ball is in play for an average of 11 minutes.  I thought this was interesting, but not really surprising.