Anyone Can Live in Arizona

The pleasure of waking up to a thin layer of ice in the kitchen sink.

The New York Times has a story about what real Americans do in the winter - we turn down the heat and enjoy the cold. We look for that inner excitement which comes from living ever so close to freezing.

Who'd want to live in a warm climate anyway?

Golfers? Too obsessive (chasing a white ball looking for the perfect hit).

Tennis players? Too narcissistic (looking for the perfect tan).

Give me the cold any day. And once we pick out the latest down-filled jacket, we can burn that LL Bean catalog for warmth. Ah the joys of winter.

Sportsmanship

You may have seen this. A Connecticut high school football player, Nick Reardon of Wolcott Tech, scored his first career touchdown. He had been diagnosed with testicular cancer and began chemotherapy the Monday after this game.

Walcott Tech is not a very good football team. They typically lose by several touchdowns and rarely score one themselves. 

So when they played against Avon High School recently, the score was expectedly lopsided. Late in the game, though, Reardon scored. 

The sportsmanship part of the story is that the play was called from the other sideline, by Avon head coach Brett Quinion.