WHAT A DAY

We all got up early this morning for Willie's first game on his travel soccer team--a 10:15 am game at the Romeo Peach Fest Tournament. It was fun to meet a bunch of new parents. From there it was off to Troy for a pool party for the Royal Oak High School JV team. Great food. Great friends. And great pool! We stayed about 3 hours and then it was back to Romeo for Willie's second game. On the way we picked up a Strut Magazine. My story on Wii Fit is out this month. I finally got home at around 9:00 pm. The boys and John went back to the pool party!

THE BIRD FEEDER

High school soccer has begun and I have spent the last two nights selling pizza to hungry teenage boys. Willie and I enjoy working in the Raven's concession stand, which is called "The Bird Feeder", for the Varsity soccer games. Last night we worked with the Morton family.

I must admit, I hate structure. And there is a big part of me that dreads the idea that beginning next week the kids will be locked to timetables. BUT at the same time this has been such a great (though hectic) week. I don't want to complain. Because like that Trace Adkins' song I know I'm going to "miss this" one day--the time of year, when the days get shorter and the nights get cooler and the kids pick up their class schedules and soccer begins!

GUITAR HERO

I was mentioned in a cute story about about moms who play Guitar Hero in the Detroit Free on Sunday. (They also plugged my book!)

Check out the story at: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/TWIST01/808240316/1025/FEATURES

dBUSINESS

Hey! Check out the September issue of Dbusiness with the Mydols inside!!

D-PAN INTERVIEW

On Tuesday I had a book signing at Island Books on Mackinac Island. The whole family went. We got up early (5:30 aM) drove there, spent the day riding bikes and eating and came home. I went to bed at midnight and had to get up and work today. ARGH!

PLEASE check out http://www.mydols.tv/!!!!

Mydols.TV is something new from the Mydols. I did my first interview with Sean Forbes and I am really happy with how it turned out. (Amy Ingalls and I did it on a shoestring budget and really really fast too! We Rock!!)

BBQ

This afternoon we had a BBQ with some architects and educators from our school district to talk about the A&E curriculum at my son's high school. It was was a kids' nightmare-to have teachers, principals, lawyers and board members in your back yard. My son pretty much wanted to hide.

All in all it was a good meeting-great food and great conversation and lots of exchanges of email addresses.

MYDOLS.TV

I am really excited to interview Scott Forbes from D-Pan. Scott is the founder of the network featuring deaf performing artists AND he is also one of the performers. He's a rising star destined to be on MTV one day soon. I'll be interviewing him for Filter AND for http://www.mydols.tv. Mydols TV is something new for the band. Look for it to be up and running soon!

TIGER STADIUM

John was contacted today by Roger Weber from Local 4. He is doing a special on Tiger Stadium. Anyone who knows John and I know how much we loved that old ball park. Roger is going to interview John about our involvement in the Tiger Stadium Fan Club.

It got me thinking about my recent interview on Weekend America on American Public Media. I never listened to it. I was so emotional. I was afraid I sounded like a kook. Well I looked it up today and read my interview. Hey! I wasn't so bad. You can listen to the interview here:

http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/06/give_up/

Or you can read it:

My husband and I met in high school, actually. One of the things we had in common was the love of baseball -- and we fell in love, actually, at a place called Tiger Stadium, which was the home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team. And we spent many, many, many summer nights on dates there. One season we went to over 61 games. And we always sat in the same seats in the lower deck right field bleachers and we met some pretty famous and infamous people there. One time Toni Tennille from Captain and Tennille sat in our section. It's the place that we fell in love with each other, with a team, with a city and with a stadium.

So 1989, we were leaving the stadium and we were approached by this tiny little Irish woman who was passing out flyers that said "Save Tiger Stadium." I didn't see that there was a reason to build a new stadium and waste a lot of money on it, when it was perfectly fine. And, you know, maybe it was selfish of me to want it, but I wanted to preserve that part of my history.

A lot of people thought we were nuts and they were like "What are you doing, you know you can't fight City Hall, get over it, get on with your life" -- but we couldn't. Gosh, if you were to ask me 19 years ago if I thought I'd still be, like, involved in this, I would have thought, I just don't have 19 years to give up for this stadium. But I have.

In the end, we did lose and a new stadium was built. And, you know, one of the bad things about fighting for something very public is that you are perceived as kind of a loser when it's all over. But on the other hand I have, you know, learned a lot -- and now I'm basically fearless.

Also we practiced last night with the Mydols new singer April Boyle. She sounded great. We learned 4 new songs. That's crazy. We aren't normally that productive.

COOL VIDEO FROM D-PAN

FEELS LIKE FALL

The weather sure got cool this weekend. Geeze. I felt like carving a pumpkin.

Today the boys both had soccer practice. Willie with his new team the Renegades and Dylan has tryouts all week for the High School soccer team. I realy hate to see the kids go back to school. I like the freedom of summer. No bed times. No homework. But at the same time, there is something exciting about the fall and the promise of new beginnings.

Speaking of new beginnings, we start rehearsing this week with the Mydols' new singer April Boyle. Looking forward to working with her.

MEETINGS, PHONE CALLS AND MORE MEETINGS

I thought summer was supposed to be relaxing. This has been the busiest summer of my life and that's a good thing. (I hope!) I've really been excited about the possibility of working on a lot of exciting new projects and have been going to lots of meetings, meeting new people, and hearing new ideas from people as far away as Los Angeles. In the meantime I take a lot of joy in my sons and their accomplishments and the time we spend together. The kids FINALLY have me hooked on the TV show "Lost". I never understood it, but after making me watch ALL the episodes from Season 1 on I finally get it! Yay for me. The kids tease me because I have a crush on Locke. (They think that is gross!)

Gotta run...I have yet another meeting to run off to!

COOL WEBSITES

I had the pleasure of meeting two really fantastic women this weekend. On Friday I met with Teri Williams of www.theblissnetwork.com at Caribou Coffee. Teri is one the happiest, most positive people I have ever met.

I also met Pat Canine this weekend. Pat had a bunch of girls over for margaritas, tostadas and massages. Pat also has a very cool website called www.cheapdivrocetherapy.com.

Check both sites out!