I'm just as upset about the loss as the rest...

Actually no I'm not. Why? Because facing my own mortality in the last several years (first a serious heart attack that almost got me and then cancer the last two years has a way of grounding a person.

Then yesterday afternoon I get one if those automated texts from my daughter because her iPhone detected a crash. She was traveling north on the freeway and was in the far right lane about to exit when there was a sudden slowdown in front of her. She got her breaks and started to hydroplane slightly. Then she for rear ended and it sent her car spinning and she hit another car. Thankfully she and everyone else was ok. She had been going 70 with flow of traffic when this all happened.

I'm grateful that I'm still here, that my daughter is ok, that I'm still here and was able to be here for rhe birth of our two most recent, one of which is my first (we are a yours and mine family) and I'm grateful that I've been able to enjoy this great season even if last night stunk.

Go Cougars.