A message to my younger self

When I found this picture in a box of old photos a few days ago, I knew right away it was going on my blog. I’m 22 years old in this moment, fresh out of college and ready for whatever Life throws at me. The much older man who is sharing this image from the

Get back up

It’s Friday morning, the first day of August. In July I only put 10 posts in this space, although I did write some other things that appeared elsewhere on the web. I didn’t write as much as I normally do because other things were going on in my life, and taking the time to sit

It’s time for me to try

Today I got some shocking news about my older daughter’s first caregiver. I hadn’t seen her in more than a decade, but the news of her sudden passing over the weekend brought memories flooding back to me. Her name was Amy, and I am grateful to her for taking care of my daughter once upon

April is here at last

It’s finally April, at least on the calendar. It feels like April was here a few weeks ago, or maybe like April never came at all this year. But no amount of warm weather could bring the baseball season any earlier. Spring training is an annual ritual, which must be carried through to its completion.

Trying to get used to this

I always talk about change on this site. You might say that it’s an overarching theme of this blog, and l wouldn’t dispute it. Change is what we do in life. So why is this new smartphone bugging me so much? And whoever came up with autocorrect…well, it can apparently read my mind at least