backstop: a baseball love story in nine innings | backstop: a baseball love story in nine innings
Jul.07.2011
Make no mistake, I love the basis upon which this country was founded—human rights, freedom of speech, all men are created equal, even if, over the decades, we’ve fallen short of those ideals.
John Wayne said we were right to take this land from the Native Americans if they couldn’t keep it. So...
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Aug.04.2010
Raymond Chandler once noted: “Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.”
But that seventy years ago. Funny thing about help in America today: we all purport to want to help; but when we do, our altruism is often questioned. When a celebrity...
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Jun.18.2010
It’s no secret, you were my dad’s favorite writer; after all, he named his first and only son after you. After he passed away, as I was going through his library, I came across the copy of A Conrad Argosy I never knew he had. It was inscribed to him by a young marine with whom he went through boot...
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Feb.10.2010
Freedom, like saying I love you, is nothing without accountability.
We all want to feel the butterflies that come with feeling in love. But love is not so much a feeling as it is acceptance. When the masks come off and we can look at our partner, see them for who they are—both the good and the not...
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Jan.11.2010
Truthfully, I think procrastination is a greater enemy for me than writer’s block. It’s often easier to put off until tomorrow what I’d planned to do today. However, A Case of Writer’s Block was written in response to a block I suffered nearly 10 years ago.
To read the remainder of my guest blog,...
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