A Place of Brightness: A Great Day for Wisconsin!

Saturday, March 18, 2017

A Great Day for Wisconsin!

I love the fact that the USA Today online headline on this story is currently "Villanova Paid the Price for Wisconsin Low Seeding."

It is an acknowledgement that Wisconsin was inappropriately placed at an 8th Seed.

But that's all over. Now Wisconsin will play seeds lower than Villanova for rounds to come.

And even if Wisconsin were to fall in the next game, this year now has a moment for those of us who graduated from that School to cherish.

But, could this day get any better?

What if Barneveld also today won their Wisconsin State Division Championship today?

Yes!

By a score of 58-28 the Barneveld Golden Eagles beat the Shullsburg Miners!

My mother and father graduated from Barneveld High School. Even though I was born and raised in Madison, it was always as if it was actually our home town and we were "big city" expats. And I even spent a few months with Barneveld as my official address when I lived at the Massey Homestead in 2002 before leaving Wisconsin to work at the NSA.

And so, congratulations, Badger Basketball (I have three degrees from that school!). Congratulations Barneveld Golden Eagles!

This win happened in the wake of a tragic loss to a team player. She she rest in peace and may the family receive consolation.

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In Saecula Saeculorum, the 4th Novel in the Valquist Series

In this fourth novel of the Valquist Series, Andrew Valquist is retired (?) from the National Security Agency and teaching Latin at a Classical Academy in the Washington DC area. But in the world of espionage, looks can be deceiving. He's not necessarily happy with the role he has played in all this, but the school was actually a joint NSA/MI-6 Project in which four young people have been unwittingly prepared for a mission to travel back in time to ancient Rome to retrieve information from a library that may save the modern world from certain destruction. They know they have to at least try to save humanity, but can they also save each other?

Next Stop: Spanish, the 3rd Novel in the Valquist Series

This third novel in the Valquist Series can be read as an espionage action-adventure in its own right, but also you can use it as a way to either brush up on your Spanish or learn functional Spanish for the first time! John Valquist needs to learn Spanish. But he's in luck, since his uncle Andrew is a language expert and a former (?) spy who is taking him on a vacation to Spain so he can study the language. In Next Stop: Spanish, you have the chance to see and study the words John studies, and then watch him add more and more Spanish into his dialogue as the story progresses. During this vacation, they get pulled into espionage intrigue (why do these things always happen to the Valquist family?). In the dramatic conclusion, John will need to put together everything he has learned to save his uncle!

Amor Vincit Omnia: the 2nd Novel in the Valquist Series

In this second novel of the Valquist Series, Keith Massey takes you into the halls of the National Security Agency, where he himself worked for four years after 9/11 and an Arabic linguist. You follow our hero Andrew Valquist, as he starts work as a new recruit at the NSA. Little does he know that on his first on the job, he's about to fly off on an unexpected overseas assignment. He'll be even more surprised when he learns that his background in ancient Latin will be crucial to the mission!

Saturday, March 18, 2017

A Great Day for Wisconsin!

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