Author Archives: Marc Parrish

Austin College is forming a Pep Band!

My lovely wife Dianne is a Longhorn. I took her to an Austin College football game for the first time about 20 years ago. Her first impression? “Where the heck is the band?” Haha. Come on now hon. This ain’t the 40 acres with its “Showband of the Southwest.” This is Division 3 my love.

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Legends 2019

Wow! Check out this post and look at that photo. There’s an incredible soccer player in that photo. Accolades, honors, records? Yup, she won ’em. She’s being honored this summer for those legendary accomplishment. What a pic! Oh yeah, Abby Wambach is in it as well. I hear she’s pretty good too. See you at

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AC & The Greatest Showman

This summer’s Roo writing will be all about Galveston, with previews on Saturdays and a Roo Tale around Labor Day. But before we head south to the Gulf of Mexico, we’ll take a short diversion today to the east. To New York. There was a time two years ago when Dianne’s & my daughter simply

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