Tag Archives: basketball

Live Every Day In Fourth Quarter

It’s been a crazy week of being up til 2 or 3am in the morning every night so in hopes of me getting to bed before midnight tonight I asked my daughter Ashley to write about a recent lesson she’s learned. Here’s what she shared: “Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big basketball fan… […]

Sharing a little about one of my Heroes

21 years ago today I gave birth to the most amazing little girl in the world. Ashley made her entrance in the world in the same epic fashion as she has done everything else since she was born – she came out bottom first! That made for an amazingly difficult labor and delivery for me, […]

RETWEET – The Breakfast of Champions (by Ashley)

Since my daughter Ashley has gotten home from her mission she constantly says the word “Retweet” whenever we say anything she agrees with. So today, in honor of her, I thought I would “Retweet” a blog she wrote for me back when she was only 17 years old. It was such a great blog that […]

Give It Your Best Til The Bitter End

Tonight my husband and I took my son and daughter-in-law to the Utah Jazz versus the Golden State Warriors basketball game. Now anyone who follows basketball knows that the Golden State Warriors are killing it this year – playing undefeated so far this season. So going into the ball game we didn’t have the expectation […]

WE Determine Our Future

I have been writing daily blogs five days a week for over 4 ½ years without missing a single day.  There have been times when I was really sick but I still wrote my blogs because I had promised I wouldn’t miss a single day. Back in 2011, my daughter Ashley, who was 15 at […]

What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?

Four years ago, October 16th of 2010, I received a phone call telling me that one of my very best friends, Steve Gasser, had died suddenly while participating in a bike race down in St. George, Utah.  I was at Disneyland when I answered that call and I literally crumbled to the ground when I […]

Appreciate Our Differences

The world would be a genuinely boring place if all of us were the exact same – if we liked the exact same things, wore the exact same clothes, liked the exact same music, played the exact same sport, had the same talents.   Don’t you agree? Yet we often spend time judging people precisely for […]

Success Follows The Incurable Optimist

The most powerful personality traits to develop in one’s quest for success are incurable optimism and integrity. Optimism is defined as “the belief that good things will happen to you and that negative events are temporary setbacks to be overcome.” (-Mayo Clinic).   Integrity, as I would define it, is “doing the right thing, at the […]

Grateful For Her Example

There is huge power in the examples set by the people we surround ourselves with.  Tonight I want to share a story of one of the great examples in my life.  My daughter Ashley is 17 years old.  For those of you who have followed my blog for a time, you are aware that last […]

WHEATIES: The Breakfast of Champions

I’M BACK! That’s right. Prepare to be dazzled. PS. This is Ashley talkin here. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Amy’s 17 year old daughter, AKA “da boss’ daughter”. Occasionally, I take over the article for the night when my mom comes home from work completely exhausted. Yeah, so I guess tonight […]

Leave it All on the Court

Tonight my husband and I took our daughter to the Utah Jazz vs Boston Celtics Basketball game.  We had given our daughter tickets to the game for her Christmas present as her favorite player is Rajon Rondo of the Celtics.  She was really bummed out when he tore his ACL and she found out he […]

When One Door Closes It Just Means There is Something More Beautiful Ahead

Tonight was an incredibly rough night at our house.  My daughter Ashley, who plays on her high school varsity basketball team, found out that she has a torn ACL and she is going to have to now undergo surgery to repair it, followed by six to nine months of rehabilitation to bring her knee back […]