I was reminded today that on February 18th, the UNM Lobo baseball team will start their 2022 season- and I have a pretty good feeling COVID won’t decimate the season this year. Annually, when college baseball games start, summer always begins earlier for me than for most people, because for me, baseball is synonymous...
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I still check eBay and Craigslist off and on for special opportunities to add to my classic Avalon Hill game collection. At times, I wonder why I collect these things. The reality is, I will probably never play most of those games I possess again. And yet, my love affair for those games I...
Read more →After helping my dad briefly with some tree-trimming at his house this morning, followed by a Blake’s burrito break, I came home and relaxed for a few and then headed on down to visit the library at UNM today. My main goal was to get access to books in Zimmerman Library, and to also...
Read more →I started the day early this morning to try and get a little more research done on the Anza project. I was in the directory on my computer last night where I store notes from the book I’d been reading on the man, and I had four different documents there where notes from the...
Read more →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 →When I was between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was happy to be able to participate in a summer missions project. Growing up as a Baptist kid in Southern Baptist churches, it was natural that I continued my denominational association in college. Right across the street from the University of New...
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While I’ve scribbled in notebooks and on computer hard drives for years, there was really just one time that I made a concerted effort to really try “that writing thing” sort of seriously. It was a good experiment. When I was a junior in undergrad at UNM, I ended up taking a creative writing...
Read more →It’s amazing how memories of a book that you read can become heavily associated with the place or places where you read it. I thought it’d be fun to make a short list of some of the books I’ve read that have strong ties to places and moments in my history and memory. “An...
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