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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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I have a daughter who attended PALY and now is a sophomore at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Her school hosted the "Quidditch World Cup" this weekend, hosting a number of other New England colleges in a version of the game made famous in the Harry Potter book series.
This "tradition" started a few years back, and appears to have gotten some serious traction in colleges around the country. My understanding is that over 100 colleges now have Quidditch teams, and the count is growing.
With brooms between the players' legs and lingo only a serious student of Hogwarts understands, this clearly is something that is part of the current generation of youth.
I have seen some of the Harry Potter movies, and I have not read any of the books, unlike my kids, who are rabid fans of both. I don't understand the game of Quidditch at all.
What I think is remarkable is that some college kids a few years ago figured out how to devise the game for mere mortals to play, and that it has taken off in popularity on college campuses around the country.
I think I spent my Sunday afternoons with Steely Dan music and other things that could incriminate me.
Viva Quidditch!
