Memnison Journal

We knew as the season for skating drew to its close that the first priority (before Meredith went back to school) would be surgery on both of her feet for her flat-feet condition (which her sister shares) that we had confirmed this spring with the family podiatrist.   Mere didn’t get nervous about the surgery until [...]

Susan passed this along for the folks who wanted to know about the connection between competitive roller-skating and the Olympics: http://usarollersports.org/about-usa-roller-sports

For all of the folks in Facebook who invite me to participate in a game: Sorry, don’t have the time to play them, and I distrust a lot of the join-this stuff in Facebook anyway. For all the folks anywhere who invite me to events out of town (Chicago): Sorry, too laid up after the [...]

As you can imagine, the champions (my Mere and her pairs partner Eric) are in seventh heaven – as I write this, Susan and Mere are on their way home to us, bearing a new gold medal.   And, of course, all their stuff. The last year, in dealing with Mere getting serious on roller-skating competitive [...]

Meredith and Eric took first place at the National Championships with a flawless, beautiful performance… stunned the people online and the commentators with **OMG WHO ARE THESE GUYS!!!** reactions. They can’t go to World Championships until the elder is 14, which is next year. But my god, they were the best I’ve ever seen them, [...]

Susan has been posting on a photo blog about her and Mere’s trip to the National Roller Skating event for the last few days: Mere’s been practicing every day at least once, and kept a very busy schedule.  Her big event is Thursday night at 9:30 pm Central Daylight Time; you can catch her and [...]

Went to the podiatrist/surgeon on Monday, and he’s leaving in the stitches for longer – I’m a slow healer, and there’s a couple of small gaps in the thing. He’s switched over to a much smaller bandage thing, essentially enough to cover the incision, and has to be redone every day with special silver gel [...]

Susan and Meredith are supposed to leave tomorrow in the morning for Lincoln, Nebraska, to the roller-skating National competition, and they will have to work really hard to be ready by then. I worry about Susan burning the candle at both ends mentally and physically with this trip, but there’s darn little I can do [...]

The latest on all of the medical stuff is that I haven’t healed enough on the bottom of my foot for the Doc to be able to let me really walk on it again, so he has basically told me that I will be off my feet until my next visit with him next Monday [...]

“Oranje boven, oranje boven. leve the Koningin!”

We now have the schedule for Mere’s events in Cincinnati, (pdf) and it basically rotates around the following: We have to leave VERY VERY early Friday the 25th to be there at the arena by 9 in the morning (ick) – Mere has practices for each of her events from 10 to 6, and then [...]

Meredith will be going off the last week of this month for her Regional roller skating competition in the Cincinnati suburbs – and in very late July to the National competition in Lincoln, Nebraska.    This is a considerable cash drain because of the travel costs and hotel costs (for 5-6 nights each time), entry fees, [...]

For the last few months, Mere has been crazy busy with stuff to do – endless tons of homework (I’m amazed at how much they hand out to kids these days) along with extensive reading projects from school (she’s managed to get through the complete Harry Potter) and more – choir, band (she’s turning into [...]

Meredith in one of her skating outfits from April, 2010, with a very typical impish expression on her face.

University of Dayton basketball playing for the NIT championship, 7 pm.  Be there.  Aloha!