Sassafras Mama

Sassafras House is a land where the sports calendar matters, both in terms of playing and viewing.   These days, JT is a runner and a wrest...

One of the nicest things about our school is that many of JT’s friends began there when they were little boys.   JT and his fellow wrestler...

JT started wrestling in 8th grade and I have since then come to realize that it’s as much a sport as it is a cult.   Our coaching staff is ...

JT ran his final race of his Senior year Cross Country season on Saturday.   A week before, at the second to the last race of the year, I f...

The backstory:   Since the new year began, T and I have spent a portion of nearly every weekend in a large gym filled with wrestlers.  The ...

While I don’t have a “wrestling mom” sticker on my car, be assured that many a New Jersey wrestling mom does roll up to meets proclaiming t...

One of the best parts of being a parent of a teenager is the pleasure of watching my child come into his own being.  JT loves physical acti...

Since the 7th grade, JT has run for the cross country team in the fall.  He started running under the direction of the amazing Coach L, a m...

The news is filled with stories about the life (and basketball victories) of Coach Pat Summitt, who died this morning.  I’ve been a fan of ...

The backstory:  I’ve written before about how much I like and respect JT’s wrestling coach .  One of the things I enjoy about him is his se...

When JT took up the sport of wrestling in the 8th grade, I had some misgivings.  My associations with the sport were largely stereotypical,...

The cross country season has officially ended and JT’s next sport, wrestling (!), doesn’t officially begin practice until November 30.  How...

The backstory: The arrival of baseball season invariably finds baseball items left all over the house.  Among those items are protective cu...

JT started the 9th grade by joining the cross-country team.  He’d run on the Middle School team for the previous two years but when p...

Among his strongest passions, sports tops out at number one for JT.  He watches ESPN daily and his iPad is filled with assorted apps to gen...

On Monday night, JT and I watched the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament and cheered on the Lady Vols, our favorite team.  I've been...

I have at least one t-shirt that reads 'Bruin Nation'.  I've recently been trolling shops to get JT a t-shirt that reads 'Ca...

I was raised in a sports-viewing home and JT is suffering the same fate.  It started four years ago, when he was just 6 and became obsessed ...

As a child, I always loved to watch the Olympics. I have succeeded in passing on that pleasure to JT. Two years ago, during the 2006 Wint...

The prompt over at Sunday Scribblings is phenomenon, specifically what sort of things make other people excited that just don't get you ...