Even if You Didn’t Go to My Alma Mater…

… I bet this story will touch you. Malcolm Mitchell is a junior wide receiver at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!), and this story about his joining a ladies’ book club in Athens went a long way to ameliorating my feelings after a tough loss to South Carolina on Saturday. If you don’t tear up a little bit around the two-minute mark, I’ll eat my hat. But not my Georgia hat, because I need that when I’m rooting for Malcolm Mitchell…

It’s pretty amazing that a top-recruited college athlete (particularly at a hard-core football school like Georgia) can put his football career in such great perspective, right in the middle of all the glory and adoring fans. Not many twenty year olds have that kind of maturity and grace – qualities that are indicative of long-term success off the field, no matter how the games turn out.

Go Dawg, Go. 🙂

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I’m M.J. (Manda) Pullen, an author and mom in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I blog about writing, publishing, motherhood, health, psychology and whatever else strikes me in the moment.

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MJ Pullen

M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.

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