Category Archives: sports

two thumbs up from Pretty

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Leylah Fernandez (l.) and Emma Raducanu at trophy ceremony (Tennis Canada)) The last grand slam tennis tournament for 2021 is in the history books, my friends, and I have to say I loved it! The US Open brings the grand … Continue reading →

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us open: a time to remember, a time to look forward

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Sheila Morris

On September 08, 2001 Venus Williams won the women’s singles championship of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York City for the second straight year (and for the last time) by defeating her younger sister Serena. It was the … Continue reading →

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VAMOS! Oh, to be 18 again

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Eighteen year old Carlos Alcaraz Garfia upset the #3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas under the Friday night lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium at the 2021 US Open Tennis Tournament last night to earn a trip to the fourth round in the … Continue reading →

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how could I skip when I was two and seventy

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Three years ago I published these reflections (with pictures) a week before my 72nd. birthday. I don’t know why, but I thought they deserved a second read. We’ll see what you think? ************************* I had a very sweet Happy Birthday … Continue reading →

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in case you missed these amazing Olympians

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Sheila Morris

(from Forbes Business online August 05, 2021) “There Are More Openly LGBTQ+ Olympians At Tokyo 2020 Than All Other Games Combined… BIG NUMBER: 182. That’s at least how many openly LGBTQ+ athletes there are competing at the Tokyo 2020 Games, according to Outsports. … Continue reading →

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Unrelated: Olympics and Bee Stings

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Haiku #1 The final athletes Stand on podium, tears flow As they hear anthem. The Haiku is a Japanese poetic form dating back to the 17th. century; as we near the end of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in … Continue reading →

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going for gold in an inferno of sand in Tokyo while America burns and Europe floods

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Pretty follows the Olympics as faithfully as I do the tennis majors; therefore, I also follow the Olympics which apparently are being carried on at least a gazillion channels in U-verse land without an adequate GPS to locate your destination. … Continue reading →

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from black magic vaccines to Wimbledon wizardry

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Sheila Morris

Pretty knows I will be grumpy next week because today the two week tennis odyssey known as Wimbledon climaxed with the men’s championship match which pitted 25 year old Italian Matteo Berrettini in his first career slam final against five … Continue reading →

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unfinished business: a man of letters

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Sheila Morris

In the summer of 2018 I published eleven stories focused on letters written during WWII by my father to my mother, his mother and others. I ended the series with the assurance that I had other letters written by my … Continue reading →

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March Madness: The Pay Gap is Madness

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Sheila Morris

The Equal Pay Today Campaign is a project of Equal Rights Advocates which is a collaboration of national, regional and state-based women’s legal advocacy and worker justice groups in the US whose mission is to “eradicate the long-standing gender wage … Continue reading →

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