Today I’m at Eli Pacheco’s blog Coach Daddy for a different kind of guest post. It’s less about writing (although the subject does sneak in) and more about one of the most important people in my life. It’s about a father, his love of soccer, and his (non-soccer player) daughter. It’s about the similarities in how people pursue their unique passions, and the little things we have in common with our loved ones that we might now realize right away. And, it’s the first guest post I’ve ever written that made me cry.
You can read the entire article now over at Coach Daddy. And while you’re at it, check out some of Eli’s posts about his own experiences (both enlightening and humorous) with fatherhood. 🙂
Courtesy of Tamara Bowman
You guys have shared stories of your fathers with me, and it often leaves me with a hope – a hope that someday, someone will think of me this way as a dad, too.
Sara Letourneau managed to meld tales of her father the soccer coach with her own realizations as a writer. In molecular science, experts refer to this type of phenomenon as … well, they don’t have a term for it as yet. I love her insight, though.
Sara’s closing in on completion of a YA novel, The Keeper’s Curse (not a tale of Elise’s travails in goal, although that could happen someday.)
Sara writes a remarkable feature called 5 on the Fifth that you just have to check out.
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Sara Letourneau 
OMG look at the cuteness of that picture!!! 🙂
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Isn’t it adorable?? 😀 Eli’s a Star Wars fan, so a number of his posts (his own as well as guest posts) feature Storm Troopers, Star Wars LEGOs, and the like. 🙂
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Sara – thanks a million for such an incredible guest post. It was an honor to host you. If I can be regarded as half the coach your dad was when it’s all said and done, I’ll have accomplished much.
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I forgot to comment on your “connection” between my novel’s current title and goalkeeping. It made me laugh! I hadn’t thought of that before reading the final post yesterday. 😀
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It’s word association – a keeper to me is my oldest kid! Also, when the kids say “we had a sub at school today,” I immediately envision cheesesteak on a hoagie roll.
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