In 2016, my family traveled to Washington DC to celebrate the Royals 2015 World Series championship. While there, we toured the city, visiting Lincoln, Dr. King, and the Smithsonian. Experiencing the Smithsonian was truly beyond words. I ...
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The Power of Playing Catch
On April 2, I was supposed to go to the Kansas City Royals home opener against the Seattle Mariners as a celebration of Isaiah’s 16th birthday. I planned on entering the stadium as soon as the gates opened, watching batting practice and ...
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It is an election year.
I am already beyond weary of the rhetoric, the ads, the junk mail, the name calling, all of the vitriol and contempt and malice. Red states and blue states, red counties and blue counties, demonstrating more ...
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Wanna Play Catch?
I have a new glove.
The first day of December 2019, a friend, who will remain nameless, texted me and told me to check my email. This is a friend who knows I can’t check my email on my flip phone. I had been gone for the morning writing, ...
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Happy Birthday, Mrs. Rhodes
Sandy Rhodes was my 5th grade teacher at Delaware Elementary. I was in her class the year the Royals won their first World Series. I’m fairly certain my sister and I were the only students in the entire school cheering for the Royals over ...
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