The Compassionate Friends Spring 2023 webzine was recently posted. My essay “About Your Room” was included along with other poems and reflections for bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings, and all who love children who have died too soon. The PDF can be downloaded directly. These magazines are free resources, please feel free to share!
Penn State Men’s and Women’s Soccer Teams will again be offering the free Mack Brady Soccer Clinic for pr-K to 8th grade children. It will be help on January 8, 2023 from 2:30-4:00 pm in Holuba Hall on the University Park campus. Details on the PSU Sports site and below. […]
Penn State played a strong, grinding game against Wisconsin on Friday, September 16, 2022 for the 10th Annual Mack Brady Match. Kris Shakes stonewalled the Badgers to put up his first clean sheet of the season, a fitting tribute for a goalkeeper! The winning goal came in the 85th minute […]
Join us this Friday for the 10th Annual Mack Brady Match as Penn State Men’s Soccer open their B1G season play at home against Wisconsin! It is hard to believe that we are nearing the 10 year anniversary of Mack’s death, but what a remarkable community has helped us remember […]
Elizabeth and I were on the The International Day of Hope and Healing after Loss online conference sponsored by Open To Hope. They have posted our portion of the day-long conference as a separate clip.
Venue Change! The Clinic will now be inside Holuba Hall on Penn State’s campus. The time remains 4 pm and we look forward to seeing you there! Get all the details and registration forms at the announcement on the Penn State Men’s Soccer page. There is no online registration and […]
Elizabeth and I were honored to be panelists on the Open To Hope “International Day of Hope & Healing After Loss Conference” which is now available on YouTube. It is a rich and diverse group of panelists and the conference was nearly 8 hours long! You can jump to 1:52 […]
My back was sore as I scrambled off the floor and the pile of wrapped presents to slide onto the couch and pick up my glass of port. I stretched and observed to Elizabeth that it has been a really challenging fall. There were three main challenges that I had […]
The B1G home opener and the 9th Annual Mack Brady Match against Northwestern was on Friday, September 17 and the team is now 6-1-2 in Mack Matches after their 2-1 victory over NW! We want to thank the State College Celtics for hosting a wonderful pre-game tailgate, Bree and Aaron […]
The essay below is by Penn State alumnus and former goalkeeper Dan Sheerin. His son Danny was one of the first Mack Brady goalkeepers at Penn State and their entire family has been a mainstay at the annual Mack Match and Winter Clinic. He and I were musing on the […]
UPDATE: What a great evening! Kris Shakes was in goal and posted a clean sheet, his second in a row, to bring Penn State to 5-1-0 on the season and the Mack Match to 5-1-2 over all 8 years! The PSU Sports story is here. Hear Kris and Coach Cook […]
The 9th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Clinic was a great success! Elizabeth, Izzy, and I cannot thank our panelists enough for their gracious gift of time and their wonderful humor and candor in sharing about their journeys through youth soccer (play more than one sport!), tips about training at home, […]
While we cannot meet in person, we will not miss our Annual Mack Brady Clinic! Even in this odd year, the Goalkeeper Union comes through to provide another clinic for aspiring keepers! It will be virtual, of course, but mark your calendars for January 17, 2021 and register now! The […]
A few weeks ago I had the honor of being interviewed about Beautiful and Terrible Things by Shelley Craig for the Faith and Grief Podcast. The less than stellar audio quality was my fault, I was recording from my iPad via Zoom (so sometimes it would speed up/slow down). It […]