The season opener for the mighty Blessed Trinity Titans was Friday night. Here they are (above) against the rival St. Pius X somethingorothers. (Lions? Cowardly Lions? I forget …) Mary Jo and I went, of course, to show some school spirit, to watch Luke do his thing with the BT drumline (he, of course again,… Read More Friday night light questioning
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
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
A quickie on the Golden State: We’re just back from a college visit/mini vacation to Central California. It’s the third time we’ve gone to California with Luke: Once to San Diego and Southern California, once to San Francisco and Yosemite, and this time from San Francisco, down the coast toward San Luis Obispo and back up to the… Read More Big Sur, California
In June of 1992, I went to the Cincinnati Zoo on a clear summer night — the kind of early summer night in the Midwest before the humidity absolutely chokes the want out of you — to see someone I had been dying to see my whole life. I took a date, my wife now. We… Read More The King of the Blues
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