What a bewildering time. It seems this whole year the world can't stay above water for all the tragedy that just keeps breaking on us in waves. I was looking forward to coaching my sons' baseball team this season, even…
I'm an unabashed baseball guy. It's in my blood, both sides of my family; and even though there are years where my interest waxes and wanes, baseball is always there like an old friend just a phone call away--no matter…
This has been a frustrating season. My expectations for how this all was supposed to go have been torpedoed and left to sink. Where I have desired peace, I have found busyness, where I have sought quiet, I have found…
With winter coming, on the advice of my wife I read A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. It is much shorter than I would have expected (my only other reference for Dickens was Great Expectations, which was not all I'd…