We have a leak in a bathroom upstairs that has made its way downstairs. We noticed a little discoloration around one of the can lights over the kitchen sink. It grew. We knew we had a problem. “That’s a leak, all right.” That’s gonna cost us some money. OK. That’s one. Two. I’d say at… Read More Bitching and whining
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 was in a Major League ballpark last night, working even, for the first time in more than six years. I took this picture from my spot in the pressbox at Turner Field. A glorious night. The national pastime. All that. I was going to stick this photo up last night — you have to… Read More At the ballpark
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