Cheerleading
Growing up as a geeky punk rocker in the early 1980s, I stayed as far away from my high school gym as possible. I don’t think I attended even a single high school football game the entire four years I was there. The “spirit” events felt so fake to me. I was an angsty, geeky, […]
Calvert-Woodley and the Competition Plus Video
Growing up in my family meant hearing about “the store.” My grandfather started the family’s retail wine store in 1933, right after Prohibition ended, and my parents ran it as well for many years. Calvert-Woodley was one of “the store’s” biggest competitors. And yet, rarely, but from time-to-time, my parents would refer someone to them […]