On April 2, I was supposed to go to the Kansas City Royals home opener against the Seattle Mariners as a celebration of Isaiah’s 16th birthday. I planned on entering the stadium as soon as the gates opened, watching batting practice and ...
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Just Baseballs
It is an election year.
I am already beyond weary of the rhetoric, the ads, the junk mail, the name calling, all of the vitriol and contempt and malice. Red states and blue states, red counties and blue counties, demonstrating more ...
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On Reading
Three books are at the center of my earliest reading memories.
Goodnight Moon was the first book I “read,” having it read to me so many times I had the words memorized. “Goodnight nobody” still makes me laugh.
Richard Scarry’s Cars ...
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The Musical World of Kaylea
In a house on Joyce Street just a few miles north of Waco, Texas, I wrote my very first songs.
While I was in seminary, wrestling with Greek and Hebrew vocabulary words, Jamie worked at the preschool at First Baptist Church of Waco. She ...
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Wanna Play Catch?
I have a new glove.
The first day of December 2019, a friend, who will remain nameless, texted me and told me to check my email. This is a friend who knows I can’t check my email on my flip phone. I had been gone for the morning writing, ...
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