How do you enforce the rules when the people in charge of enforcement don’t want to enforce? The other day, I wrote that the sheriff
Tag: baseball
The relentless pursuit of perfection.
Sitting out on our deck on the next-to-last full day of spring, with the temperature a balmy 72 degrees and the sky filled with puffy
The name of the game.
The culmination of the college basketball season, the Final Four, is this weekend. On the men’s side, the four semifinalists, culled from a field
The best time of the year.
You can always tell who’s a baseball fan in late September. It’s the guy who shows up at work rather bleary-eyed from staying up late
A lazy summer day.
Summers in Wisconsin don’t last very long–it’s said we have nine months of winter and three months of bad snowmobiling–but when they do arrive, they’re
Brothers in the Empire State, part 1.
I have two younger brothers, and we all grew up together in Wisconsin before going our separate ways, as siblings almost always do. I stayed
A Strenuous Writer's Life 