My son, Luke, first saw a college campus, I’m guessing, at about 6 years old. Maybe younger. It was — I’m guessing again — maybe just a walk-through at the University of Cincinnati, maybe on the way to a basketball game. I know, when he was about 7, when I was covering spring training in Arizona,… Read More College days
I’m not sure, really, what I expected Tuesday night. I’m generally an optimistic guy, but I’ve done this kind of thing before, so I guess I expected hot and sticky, and shoulder-to-shoulder, and hard aluminum benches (no backs) and a bunch of graying and screaming rock-n-rollers trying to act 19 again. I guess I kind… Read More It’s only rock ‘n roll
Luke has a couple jobs this summer; one that his mom got him, working downtown in an office four or five days a week, and one doing some house-sitting and critter-watching maybe 50 miles north of downtown, up near Canton, Ga. After he gets done with his day job downtown, Luke makes his way up to… Read More North Georgia, June 2015
Just a few years ago, I was here on the night this video was taken. Later on tonight, I will be here. (That’s Bobby Dodd Stadium, on the campus of Georgia Tech, in downtown Atlanta.) Seeing the same band. Just a few years apart. That first one, as I remember, was my first big… Read More Start Me Up
I just finished downloading pretty much every photo I have taken for the past, oh, 10 years or so into the new Google photo tool. Now, when my laptop eventually goes pffzzzzyt (which had better not happen any time soon), my pictures will be safely stored in the cloud. For free! Pictures of my son and… Read More Google owns me
And then there’s this about California, too. We limited ourselves to two In-N-Outs while we were there, one just outside the airport in San Francisco (hey, we couldn’t wait) and one in Atascadero, on the 101 just north of San Luis Obispo. (By the way … it’s San LOUIS Obispo, not San LOUIE Obispo, I’m… Read More Good eats
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