Nowhere Near the Edge

The boys finally got in the win column.   It is the way they did it, in the best traditions of the long history of baseball at all leve...

After a year hiatus, Michael is playing fall baseball again.   He is moving up a division, playing on a larger field with older teamm...

At least, the best one I've been to that wasn't my own.  For Michael's 11th birthday, we agreed to his request that we take some...

We are a month into what we anticipated would be a school year full of work.  We have not been disappointed.  Fifth grade is well-known to b...

As a society, we trust order, but are not above manipulating our world to match our expectations of what the world ought to be.   We pr...

For the first time in three years, our summer did not move to the beat of the swim team season.  Michael decided he did not want to be on th...

In the middle of the ongoing Olympiad, the most impressive performance under pressure this week was not an archer fighting crosswinds or an ...

Giants fans took a lot of flack from the national media and fans of other teams when they adopted Chicago-style tactics (vote early and ofte...

I changed the oil in my car last weekend.  That hardly seems worthy of note, but what was routine a generation ago is now cause for either c...