Andy Rowell

Author: Andy Rowell

  • Rookie Gear Spalding Basketball for Kids under 8

    We like this basketball for kids 8 and under:

    • It is a “Rookie Gear” ball that is 25% lighter than other basketballs. 
    • Size 5 (27.5″ Youth).  (Adult women’s balls are 28.5″ in diameter so this is smaller than that). There are other Spalding Size 5 balls that are not Rookie Gear.  (We have one of those too and it is good too).     

     

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  • Rowell Family Christmas Photo 2010

    Chrsitmas picture 2010

    Ryan is five, Jacob is three, and Allie is 7 months.

  • Tolkien on giving advice

    Gildor the Elf says the following to Frodo.

    "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship's sake give it." 

     J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter III (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991), p. 97.

    I often myself feel like saying something like this. I put it this way, "Not that I think it will be of much help–I don't know you very well and you have surely thought about this far more than I–but I will give you my two cents."