by Jessie Barber | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I write this, college athletics Power Five Conference Presidents and Chancellors are meeting to discuss the viability of playing college sports, and in particular college football for the fall of 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wow. These must be grueling...
by Jessie Barber | Jun 7, 2020 | Owner
The latest headline declares “Business closures surge by 200% as coronavirus hammers US economy, study finds.” We have all experienced a force majeure (a cool word I heard a lawyer use the other day and thought I’d give it a shot with you here:) of sorts in the last...
by Jessie Barber | May 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Cliches are fast to harden during a pandemic. “In these uncertain times.” “When things go back to normal.” “When the economy re-opens.” The root word for “normal” gives reference to a carpenter’s square. A tool used so the angles will be standardized and without...
by Jessie Barber | May 19, 2020 | Owner
A couple of nights ago my boys and I and a couple of their friends went to a small island in a nearby river and camped for the night. River Rat Island (self-named by a group of local friends) is a surreal place probably the size of a football field or two, packed with...
by Jessie Barber | May 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s been well over a month since the “normal” schedule of school and sports were put on pause indefinitely forcing families to either acquiesce to either the binge consumption of Netflix and online gaming, or the creation of new things that did not exist prior. Just...
