Perhaps you think you are being helpful. Maybe you were a standout high school player, or even a college player, at your kid’s sport of choice. So you “cheer,” or at least that’s what you think you ...

Ah, fall, that time of year when thousands of dedicated people put months of training to the test and toe a marathon starting line. And, standing along those marathon courses are family members, ...

When my 10-year-old granddaughter took up cheerleading, I didn’t realize the problem I would have. Baseball was easy. "Get a hit." "Smack the cover off the ball." "Bring the heat." It was easy to yell ...

On my library table this week, a book from my great-great grandmother, Catharine, published in 1906, “Catch Words of Cheer.” It is a book of quotations compiled by Sara A. Hubbard, a rather ...