A Dream Like No Other
For those of you that know me you may or may not know the following tidbit about me...I remember every dream I have and they are usually pretty weird. Case in point, I have a recurring dream (more like a nightmare) that plagues me every single time I see a certain mascot. Yes, you read that correctly, a mascot. To be more specific, my Dad's high school mascot - that subsequently was supposed to be my mascot too my senior year - the Bearcat. It really isn't a scary animal, seriously. It looks like a cougar with a ginormous head. But for whatever reason, this animal plagued my dreams anytime I saw it when I was little and stuck with me, even at 34 years old. The dream is that we are at a huge family reunion just outside of Scottsbluff at a lodge. There is another family there, but the Cottrell/Satur/Ziegler crew had one wing of the place to ourselves. Suddenly a ginormous bearcat appears outside and the only way it will go away is i...