Gentlemen, and ladies... start your engines!

Welcome friends, sports fans and casual readers. 
This is my introductory post to my new blog, In A Nutshell.
 In A Nutshell is the name of my sports column published weekly in The Wasatch Wave - out of Heber City, Utah - where I am employed as a graphics person and more recently a staff sports writer.
I am an illustrator, writer and sports enthusiast for life and believe I have found my niche writing sports for our local newspaper.  Hopefully, it won't stop there.  I intend to post regularly, not only my daily thoughts on sports and sports as pop culture, but my published works featured in the Wave as well.  I may not always be right, but I will always be honest, and hopefully those of you who stop by regularly will get to know my sense of humor and outlook on life... and of course, on sports.
Personally, I am late-forty-something, around eight I believe, but you would have to ask my lovely wife Michelle to be certain.  We have five kids, ranging from twenty years old to six and a grand daughter who is nearly a year old.  There are four dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and a bird that live in my house and seven chickens that live outside of it.  I hail from the mid-western town of Evansville, Indiana where I graduated from Reitz High School in 1982.  Since then, I have lived in Chicago and Los Angeles before settling - hopefully for good - here in the beautiful mountain valley town of Heber City.  You can follow me on Twitter at:  @kennybristow and also on Facebook and if you must, feel free to email me at:  kennywbristow@gmail.com.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope to whoop up some good sports conversations with all of you.
Play Ball!