Baseball Is Life: Home
We lose sight of it sometimes as we strain to look over the outer fences, but home is the heart of baseball.
Baseball Is Life: The Enemy
It's easier to shift the blame to electrons and think of us as a meaner society now that we can send insults and threats at the speed of Internet. But I've been struggling with Being Nice long before the screeching of a modem dial-up entered it.
Baseball Is Life: Background Programs
They had to talk me down from the ledge when some teacher explained that entire bodily systems—heart, digestion, even blinking—worked without me thinking about it. They’re background programs. I knew these thin... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: What Do We Need?
The Purge is upon us. As of late, I'm my own personal fire sale; if I've not used or smiled upon something in the pretty-much immediate past, out it goes. I would be a very effective, very hated baseball team o... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Great View of the Ballpark
What's it like when the ballpark is down the street?
Baseball Is Life: Lineage of Love
I heard a phrase the other day that struck a strong, lingering chord. I'm not going to tell you where because you will mock me.
(It was in yoga class. I am now quoting things I've heard in yoga class. I know... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: What’s Inside Baseball?
I don't mean: Explain this boring inside joke of a conversation. I mean: What is actually, physically inside a regulation Major League Baseball baseball?
One of my favorite exhibits at the Reds Hall of Fame ... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Milemarkers
Some major life events don't happen with a phone call or a positive pregnancy test, but unfold with the slowness of a river barge. They float through the middle of our lives, adjusting with the current, there b... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Adventures in Ventilation
WIth the dawn of Opening Day comes the desire for new adventures. This year's Opening Day is hanging by a thread of sanity: Some have no hope for the team... some are avoiding the team... some want to attend th... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Under the Shadow
The shadow of the crucifix loomed over the altar and the steps leading to it. Last week, Fr. Mike Schmitz pointed to its origin, an image of Christ crucified suspended over the center of the building, and spoke... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Buying The Farm
Changes in the neighborhood: On the West Side of Cincinnati, the Angel of Death comes not with a scythe, but an outdoor sign letter changing pole.