In 1995, with the baseball season starting late in a year after there was no World Series, I made a vow. I had been a baseball fan since I was 7 in the late 1950s, but I was so angry at the angst every few years as owners and players battled over more money than …
Is there anything we could learn about Donald Trump anymore that could shock the people who have chosen him as their hero? Apparently destroying documents illegally by tearing them up like a child having a tantrum isn’t anything his base cares about. If they did care, if it was something that upset them, Trump would …
For about 20 years — from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s — Pete Rose was my favorite baseball player. He was never the most talented guy in the game, but he had the most amazing drive and desire to succeed. No one would ever compare him to Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle, but …
“I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day and the dark sacred night, and I think of myself what a wonderful world.” There is so much beauty in this world. All you have to do is look for it. For me, the beauty I have found can be covered with …
Do you remember the first book you read as a kid that wasn’t written for kids? If you go to the trouble to follow my writing on this site, the odds are pretty good that you consider reading as one of the more rewarding things you do. You probably started young. I don’t know of …
The Washington Commanders? Seriously? It probably wasn’t the worst of all the possible choices, but it sure seems to me that there’s only one possible response to the once-proud NFL team’s choice of a new nickname. Meh. So the former Washington Redskins, winners of three Super Bowls but essentially irrelevant in this century, have announced …
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of …
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Donald Trump keeps edging us closer and closer to the abyss. The only question anymore will be who goes over the edge — America or Trump himself. At a rally in Conroe, Texas, Saturday, Trump said the January 6th insurrectionists had been treated unfairly, and said if he was re-elected in 2024, he would pardon …
In the Weather app on my iPhone, I have about a dozen cities around the world bookmarked. Most of them are either places I have lived or places people I care about live, from Tunis to Tahoe and other points that I check nearly every day. It’s 58 degrees in Tunis right now — late …
One thing that has always fascinated me about Facebook is the Memories tab, where I’m shown things I posted or saw on this date in history. I joined FB in late 2008, and posted this on January 26, 2009. It was basically 25 random things about myself. Here they are 13 years later, complete with …
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