• CFL Beat: Week 15

    CFL Beat: Week 15

    September may honestly be the perfect month. With the back-to-school routine now established and with football Sundays in session, I can also now fill…

  • CFL Beat: Week 14

    CFL Beat: Week 14

    The NFL is back tonight! Yahoo! Very exciting! I’ll be watching all of it, as we all love to do here. I’m just glad…

  • CFL Beat: Week 13

    CFL Beat: Week 13

    We’ve made it to Labour Day! It’s officially make-it-or-break-it time in the CFL season, and the annual tradition of fierce divisional rivalry games comes…

  • CFL Beat: Week 12

    CFL Beat: Week 12

    I’m not ready yet to go back to school. I need to hang onto this summer just a little tiny bit longer. With an…

  • CFL Beat: Week 11

    CFL Beat: Week 11

    Where in the world is Maestro this week? Vancouver, as it turns out. Unfortunately we’re flying home the night before the Lions host the…

  • CFL Beat: Week 10

    CFL Beat: Week 10

    As life on the East Coast moves slowly while on vacation once more, football continues to march forward unabated. We have been working through…

  • CFL Beat: Week 9

    CFL Beat: Week 9

    Tomorrow is already August. As a teacher, that’s the most horrifying thought I’ve had in months. While summer camp winds down forever for me,…

  • CFL Beat: Week 8

    CFL Beat: Week 8

    Thursdays are thunderstorm days in my neck of the woods. I have absolutely no idea why that is, but it seems to be settling…

  • CFL Beat: Week 7

    CFL Beat: Week 7

    I can’t do heat. Never have been able to handle it. There’s a good reason why NFL football only begins in September; climate change…

  • CFL Beat: Week 6

    CFL Beat: Week 6

    Summer camp is underway. It’s my eighteenth (and final) year of being involved with teaching summer music. I’m four days in and I’m more…