Here is a unique backstory to the Sickles High School 6A State Baseball Championship that just might have flown under the radar.
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Bad Angels Stand So Good Angels Can Sit
Bad Angels Stand – Good Angels Can Sit
Have you ever wondered why we turned out the way we did?
Perhaps my strict parochial elementary school education was a major influence in my life and had something to do with it. Nuns, angels, eraser fights and losing a spelling bee title to the “smartest kid ever created” helped make me who I am today.
Or was it something else?
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My Father’s Best Kept Secret
A twelve-year-old can stay at home by himself while his mother goes grocery shopping. He should be OK.
But what if he discovered something that he might be better off not knowing?
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The World Through His Eyes
The World Through His Eyes
A chance encounter with a Purple Heart recipient sparked this story.
Sometimes you need to see the world through someone else’s eyes to appreciate what you have.
Today was one of those days.
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M&Ms – My Cure for Writer’s Block
Writer’s block! If you are a writer, you can identify with the comic strip character Snoopy as he sits atop his doghouse with his typewriter undertaking another attempt at writing his future best-selling murder mystery.
Somewhere on the list of ingredients listed on a package of M&Ms is some fine print that says, “Cures writer’s block” or something to that effect.
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Onomatapoeia
Have you ever read comic books as a child . . . or as an adult? You can admit it, because you’re not alone. Phrases and expressions from that world have crept into ours and we use them unsuspectingly every day.
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It Happens Each Christmas
What happens at the North Pole when Santa asks his elves if they have everyone’s list? If you’re like me, you probably haven’t sent yours because “you have everything you need and not much that you want” (with apologies to Zac Brown and his song Homegrown)?
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Blubba Kowalski – Part I, The Early Years
This is Part I of the story of a young man whose unfathomable size was both a blessing and a curse; an incredible advantage and a tremendous obstacle; his best friend and his biggest enemy.
He was named Walter Stanislaus Kowalski III after his father and his grandfather before him, and he would grow to become a skyscraper among buildings, a sequoia among smaller trees, and a man among children.
It is also a story about a young boy whose heart was as big as the body that carried it.
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Yogi Berra’s Autograph
Sometimes childhood legends actually step into your life.
And how would you react when Yogi Berra says, “Hi-ya kid” to you?
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