Category Archives: H-E-Double Hockey Sticks

Cold Muthas Heat Up the Ice

My new women’s hockey team is progressing at a much faster pace than I had anticipated after our 1st practice, which mainly consisted of sorting our gear and convincing our middle school age coaches that we were serious enough to warrant them getting up before noon to help us. By practice 2, word had spread […]
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Cold Muthas — Day 1

I belong to a hockey family, which is code for my house and car smell funny. Last year marked the beginning of a new era in Podunk hockey — the formation of a hockey league designed for the women who had previously been relegated to washing hockey underthings and working the concession stand. We are […]
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Drastic Tactics

Our 15-year-old woman-child, Her Royal Highness, interrupts her beauty routine only to play hockey. Unless you count the aboriginal eyeliner visible beneath her face mask as a beauty routine. I personally find it frightening, but then again, I doll up with Chapstick. Hockey is why, fat after Thanksgiving, I woke up in a hotel room […]
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