I think often of certain moments back when I was in seminary in the Bay Area in the early 1990’s, and am reminded what an important period those years were in my life. Going away to seminary, it was my first time “living away from home”, in a real sense. I completed college in...
Read more →I was sitting out at dinner tonight, alone, as is my usual deal, thinking about that circumstance, when the words went through my head. “It’s your own fault.” If you sit at dinner alone, it’s your own fault. If you live alone, it’s your own fault. If you spend too much time alone, it’s...
Read more →Sadly, I think it’s been over two months since I’ve read any more in my Bautista book, which means it’s been about that long since I’ve even thought about that screenplay idea. On the positive side, I did finish the third/half of the book that was pretty much narrative about his life. The following...
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A video circulated online today that I thought captured, to some extent, why I like baseball quite a bit. The video is of young Houston Astro Carlos Correa driving the ball deep into the outfield, and he trots it out for a double. He is greeted at second by fellow young player/All Star/wunderkind Francisco...
Read more →Sing, little sparrow, morning’s come on. The branches are blowing, here comes the dawn. The hounds will soon find me, my run will be done. I will float down the river in the afternoon sun. I was never a killer, my hands loved to work. I stole nothing wrongly, I learned from the Word....
Read more →Sarah Cantata sang a sonata before she was caught by the flu. Hans Amanaster, a Cyprian Pastor, well, it found its way to him too. Mel Putnam Bailey took vitamins daily hoping to escape that great blight. He oft saw the doctor and gargled salt water and still, the flu found him one night....
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We went because my mom was offered some tickets from her dentist. The Albuquerque Isotopes played the Tacoma Rainiers tonight in Isotope Park. The weather was cool and lightly breezy and early springlike and perfect. It was enjoyable because my friend Brian joined us, and my Mom likes to call him Markypoo because he...
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Tonight was a special treat for me. Brian and Ron from the old game group came over this evening, along with Kyle, a guy from the dance club the club president told me like board gaming as well, and I got to break out a very popular and somewhat hard-to-find game called Concordia. The...
Read more →I regularly experience in my writing process that if, say, I tell myself I want to write a short story, I’ll have a quick clear thought about what it should be. In my head I see a character have an experience, and they are changed. BAM! There it is! The automatic short story is...
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It started because as I was leaving the house this morning, I grabbed my laptop in the laptop bag so I could do a little writing later. What I needed, though, was not in the laptop bag, where I thought I had left it. It wasn’t there. I looked around the house in the...
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There are moments when I have a clearing in my life- when all of the sound is muted and I am not in the middle of movement or mayhem or deadlines or desperation or a flurry of inner noise- and the sky above me is white the walls around me are white the clouds...
Read more →I was driving to work this morning in the slow freeway caravn when the news moment at the top of the hour started by the lead-in music, and I paid attention to try and hear the usual stuff- game scores, trade notifications, injured lists, draft opinions- when the lead story grabbed me and made...
Read more →Someone had to have been watching the property. Someone knew that they would be home that night, and someone also had a good sense about what might have been in that house, and where. Because when everything was burned up- when the house was a smoldering pile of embers early in the morning, after...
Read more →I ran out of time today to get a good solid post done- but I needed to post something. How about this heart-tugging moment between a father and son. Despite what the celebration circles around, I love seeing good kids rewarded by kind parents. Yeah, kid- I’d cry too. And from the looks of...
Read more →Easter Weekend was a good and mellow experience this year. I didn’t do much on Saturday, which was okay, because I had a dull headache all day- a carryover from Friday night. The Lobo baseball team played a weekend series with a good Missouri State team from Thursday through Saturday, and afer the Lobos...
Read more →In 2016, the Chicago Cubs did the improbable, and the mostly unexpected, by winning the World Series. Okay- it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected in 2016, except to diehard Cubs fans. But it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected because of the people the owners and the team put in place during the prior handful...
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