It is 11:23 p.m. on Sunday night. I am sitting on my foyer floor spraying what must be the equivalent of half a bottle of Shout over grass- and clay-stained white baseball pants wondering what kind of new fresh...
My daughter’s eyes filled with tears. "Mommy, why were the parents on the other team screaming so loud? It was SO distracting." Her tears were not those of sadness, but of frustration, which made me see red. My normally...
School is back in session, which also means all the kids' fall sports and fun opportunities for organized play! As much as we wish we could keep our young athletes packed safe inside a bubble, that's not exactly realistic....
Ready, set... let's go to THE PLAYERS! The tournament hosted right in our own Northeast Florida backyard will be held March 10–15th, 2020, and we are here with all you need to know. Golf is a sport the whole...
The ever-present exhaustion and aching muscles that often accompany pre-season sports conditioning is a necessary evil that many of us know all about — whether you've been through it yourself or noticed it in your children. That's why it's...
If you're anything like me, I hate commercials. I don't watch much TV to begin with and ads are part of the reason why. The volume soars when the show stops, and I end up muting it or just...
If you have kids with any interest in sports, most of us dip our toes in with a rec league. If you’re like me, you start with Soccer Shots at age 2, mostly for laughs. Have you ever seen...
When did ticket bots become a thing, why are they here, why can't we stop them, and WHY DO THEY HAVE TO RUIN IT FOR ALL OF US?! If people can invent smartphones, blue-tooth devices, robot vacuums, and drones...
What are your earliest memories of being aware of your body? Aware of what you thought of yourself, and how you were viewed by others? My first memories were of my mother telling me how beautiful I was. She...
I’m 41, and my bones are old.
I’m too old to start learning a new sport, let alone ice skating! I probably should have picked tennis, pickleball, or bowling... and my bones would probably be thanking me instead of cursing...
As someone who’s always had ties to Jacksonville, but didn’t grow up here (born and raised New Yorker, but I’ve been a First Coast resident for almost 9 years), I have a unique viewpoint of knowing Jax as both...
When your child plays competitive sports, you spend a lot of time at the fields. My 11-year-old has soccer several nights a week, and one or two games on the weekend. We spend countless hours a week with our...