Category Archives: Books

Baseball! Already?

Sometime over the weekend in Sydney, Australia, the major league baseball season will begin when the LA Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks square off at the cricket grounds. Baseball in Australia? What’s the world coming to? Actually, I don’t find it … Continue reading

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Now for something completely different

No, I am not writing about Monty Python, though I think the local Civic Theatre is going to stage Spamalot this year. Instead, I am writing about baseball. Yes, when the wind-chill hits single digits or colder, you should think … Continue reading

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Writing exercises

My son loves brackets. He’ll create a bracket for things alike and unalike. On Monday, he came up with a bracket on things very unalike: breakfast cereal, stinky skunk, Chevy Bel Air, Girl Scout cookies. What we do is he’ll … Continue reading

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Holiday book ideas

Nov. 23 was “Black Friday” the busiest shopping day of the year. People were in line outside Walmart, Target, Kmart, Sears and a host of other stores before late Thanksgiving night hoping to get that (name of the latest toy … Continue reading

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