We don’t play enough—and our lives pay for it.
For one year, I played catch, crossing 10 states and 12,000 miles on a quest both quixotic and inspiring.
In A Year of Playing Catch, “ride along” as a passenger in the Bryan ...
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A Celebration of Playing Catch
For the second consecutive January, I drove 450 miles north, across the Iowa border, almost all the way to South Dakota, all to celebrate a game of catch.
In 2022, I went as part of the Wanna Have a Catch? Opening Weekend ceremonies. ...
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Ozarks Literacy Council
In Springfield, Missouri, directly west of Central High School, is the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library. If you decide to visit the Midtown Branch sometime over the next two months, you'll see a representative sampling of Sophie's art on ...
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A Catch-Playing Manifesto
In a play-deprived culture where recess is deemed an unnecessary educational endeavor and people are encouraged to grow up much too soon;
In a culture that thinks of me first and affirms independence as a supreme virtue;
In a hurried ...
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You Are Invited
This time last year, I had visited with Kevin Negaard for one brief phone call, I had never spoken with Dan Bryan, and I had never heard of John Scukanec.
In 2022, I have joyfully watched all three of them bringing hope and healing into ...
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Mustach-ing.
I am trying to grow a mustache.
That is a sentence I never thought I’d write.
Jamie, my wife, strongly prefers the clean-shaven look. Which is a good thing, because my chances of actually growing anything that resembles a mustache are ...
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