Suburban Hoop Dreams

What’s the first thing you do when you move to the suburbs and you and your wife have a couple of teenage sons.

The first thing I did when my wife and I moved from the city to the suburbs was plant a big ugly basketball standard on the edge of the driveway turn around. I figured the kids could dribble the ball on the hard asphalt and shoot the ball into…

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Brian Dickens Barrabee

Involved in life and writes stories about the experience, Consistently Medium Top Writer: Sports, Humor, Parenting. His book: Confessions of a Real Estate Man.