When the chips are down, or we get tired and we need respite, most people have their go-to goodness. Mine are probably not that different from the escapes many others take. Food is a main favorite. Tacos please. Most anything with sugar. Stuff I don’t have to work much to make. TV. Baseball games....
Read more →I was lucky last year. A devoted follower of a sports team that had not been in a league championship game in 71 years, and that had not won the league championship in 108 years, I was able to shed the immense weight of being someone who embraced a sports team that was known...
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It’s not because I am a great athlete that I caught the bug. Or maybe it is because I’m not a great athlete that I did. I don’t know. And it’s not that it’s been this lifelong passion. There were probably 15 to 20 years that I didn’t think about it at all, between...
Read more →I knew today was coming, but I tried to keep the mental images of what I thought would happen at bay for a while. Well, today I found out how it would go. For several weeks now, I and two friends from my church small group have talked about getting together to play basketball...
Read more →When I was in junior high and early high school, I was, well, like I was in elementary school: pretty quiet, pretty awkward around lots of kids, and pretty unsure of where I fit in with people. I was pretty fortunate to be raised in a family where my folks let us try a...
Read more →It’s been a week or so now since I have been able to post anything. I’d like to say I have a reason for this, but I don’t. Between an ongoing sorrow that I can’t seem to shake and physical ailments that leave me wondering what is going on in my body, I’ve just...
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