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Free yourself... “Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here...” ~Anne Lamott Love this, from Stephen McCranie's blog...  http://doodlealley.com Be Friends With Failure  

Great weekend! Grace had an early Portledge Panthers practice Friday and afterward we went to see the Hofstra Women's team beat Fordham. Riverside Hawks provided the tickets and most of the Hawks teams were in attendance. Very nice night for all the Hawks families. Saturday morning Grace had a 9am Lady Lions practice at The Beacon in Bayside Queens. She was hitting her shots and going strong to the basket. At 2:00 we went to see Joe Tartamella and the St John's women's team beat St Francis at Carnesecca Arena. The Hawks provided tix for that as well so Grace got to sit with her teammates again. Sunday we headed down to Princeton to see Megan Griffith and the Tigers raise last season's Ivy Banner. They beat the Marist Red Foxes which had Emma O'Connor, who is a senior now, and the freshman Brittini Lai, who we saw play for Irvington last year. The highlight of the trip was seeing Taylor Brown get into the game for Princeton late in the se...

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Portledge varsity has started practicing for the 2013-14 season. Grace says it's mostly conditioning so far but that they got to do some scrimmaging yesterday which went well. Says she's nervous taking jump shots for some reason.... shoot more of 'em then! She's trying to keep up with Tamara Simpson who is an excellent player... good idea! Bunky Reid Championship game will be this Friday night. Thought the season had ended but nice to have an additional game. Go Lady Lions! Lions practices Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings. Hawks practices Friday nights. Pro-Hoops Sunday mornings, Game7 Sunday nights and Portledge practices weekdays after school. That's at least one practice or training session 7 days a week.... that's a lot, we'll see how it goes.