For best results, start the video first and then scroll down to the slideshow beneath. Thanks!
I’m going to write out a few things about the posts on this site in 2012 soon, but for now the slide show will have to do. If I was really tech-savvy, I’d make it so that a click on a picture would take you to the post itself. But for now, this works if the Motley Crue video is off the screen, and the slideshow plays onscreen while the music is still going. It’s the best that I know how to do at the moment.
I wrote almost 500 pieces for this blog in 2012, and these images don’t even represent a quarter of what I’ve done this year. But I’m proud of everything that’s on here. Blogging is not for everyone, but it suits me very well. It’s a window into my world, or at least those parts of it that I care enough to write about. It’s my home, at least in a virtual, online sense, and that’s why Motley Crue gets to come along for the ride. And I’m hoping for an even better year in 2013.
Here are links to all of the stories, if you’re interested in any of them:
January 7: The future of books and Going to Rosehill
January 15: A baseball tradition that you’ve never heard about
January 17: A disaster at sea
February 10: With thanks and love to my father
February 14: The Love curd
February 25: A jewel of a sculpture
March 3: Sandra Fluke and the kill for/die for thing
March 22: In appreciation of my Mom
March 24: America must be better than this
March 25: Working on my serve
March 27: They won’t look like this for long
April 3: All I’ve got is a photograph
April 14: Can’t go there anymore and What we’re losing
April 15: To be young forever
April 29: Paris, not horrible at all
May 2: Titanic’s final victim
May 12: When the music’s over, turn out the lights
May 16: Looking ahead already
May 19: Triple shot
May 21: Game ready
May 23: I can’t explain this
May 25: The movie that changed everything
May 28: Honoring Soldiers, Schuylers, and the guy who made our piano
May 30: I’m feeling good to play a little music
June 2: Forget about the goat
June 6: The ugly blue-green truck
June 8: And then I’ll sit and think some more
June 12: It was a big year for me
June 18: Finding some magic in the kitchen
June 21: Meeting the wave
June 22: My favorite founder, and a place that shares his name
July 1: Presenting a young poet’s first work
July 2: Quarterly Report #4
July 8: Passing the quarter-pole
July 11: 47% Obama, 47% Romney, 100% Worthless and Remembering the places we’ve been
July 14: The years flashed by
July 18: Only want to see you in the Purple Rain
July 23: America, as it always has been
July 26: All we are is dust in the wind
July 27: The old and the new
July 28: I couldn’t believe what I was seeing
July 30: A different reaction this time
August 3: The summer of my discontent
August 4: It’s all changed but the love
August 6: An attack on America
August 14: The past and the future, in one place
August 19: A double play of art and baseball
August 30: Listening to the golf pencils
August 31: It’s better than Tebowing and One week to go
September 2: What is “Government Help” anyway?
September 3: Crossing the digital bridge
September 5: Link to another ThroughTheFenceBaseball piece
September 11: Patriotic, to a fault and Wrigley, Ronny and the Boss
September 12: Putting it on the line and Somebody tell me
September 18: In the Midnight hour
September 19: At the end of the day
September 22: Write on
September 25: Going to the dogs
September 27: With fresh curiosity
September 29: 99 Cubsballoons go by
October 5: Thinking of my Grandpa
October 6: Hey yo, Apollo
October 7: Far away and left behind
October 9: A year that stood out
October 12: What Margarita?
October 13: So long, Champ
October 14: Breaking the Wave
October 15: The American Way?
October 16: Pizza and the presidential debates and Call me Mr. Worldwide
October 18: Blue: It’s a color so cruel
October 19: The Romney Files, Part II
October 21: Swinging at Sunrise
October 22: Still Worthless
October 28: Ballpark in Winter
November 2: Laugh about the old days
November 4: What I want for her
November 6: It was 20 years ago
November 7: Got to have a celebration
November 8: Finding Lincoln, again
November 10: My high school lifelines
November 13: Loved the movie, but hated the green screens
November 17: An allegiance to the heart
November 18: The Holder Of All Stuff and The social media president
November 23: And as we wind on down the road
November 25: A story for post number 715
November 27: Link to a Piece on ChicagoSideSports
November 30: Sorry, Pappy!
December 1: All you create
December 7: A Yuletide haiku
December 9: Ah, the unfettered thrill of outdated linguistic expression
December 10: Vegas matchbooks, Part 2
December 13: What if I told you…
December 14: Our candles were lit for the victims tonight
December 18: A couple of interesting Lincoln views
December 25: A Christmas miracle
Thanks for reading!
