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When four-year-old Conner starts pleading for hockey skates, his mother's dreamy fantasies of apr s ski's toasty fires, charming chalets, and chilled chardonnay rapidly evaporate. Soon, Astra reluctantly raises the white flag to the culture of hockey, and life becomes a whirlwind of early morning alarms, minivans stuffed with massive amounts of goalie equipment, ice-cold arenas, and appalling nutrition. Offside by a Mile - Confessions of a Hockey Mom, chronicles the frantic and frequently hilarious challenges of one family's fourteen-year odyssey into the world of minor hockey. The universal challenges, joys, and sorrows of supporting childhood passions at the cost of home-decorating ambitions, healthy diet avowals, personal time, gobs of money, full-nights' sleep, or any sort of downtime or personal freedom will be recognizable to parents everywhere. But with its wickedly frank and funny perspectives, Offside by a Mile offers a bubbly and refreshing tonic for it all....

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Outside of inhaling Zamboni fumes as a hockey mom, Astra Groskaufmanis is a human resources professional in Ottawa. Her writing has appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, the Momoir Project, Minor Hockey News, and the YummyMummyClub. She is a weekly contributor to HockeyNow's online magazine. Her short story, The Angels of Hockey was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul - O Canada: The Wonders of Winter (November 2013). You can find her poking fun at herself, motherhood, and minor hockey on her blog, The Dustbunny Chronicles http: //www.astragroskaufmanis.com/, on Twitter at @mydustbunnies, and on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/TheDustbunnyChronicles. Astra lives with her husband, and their three children, in Manotick, Ontario....

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