It felt somewhat like an episode of The Amazing Race.
Jamie and I drove through hotter-than-hot-and-humid Iowa (heat index north of 100), trying to find our way from the Iowa side of the Missouri River to the Nebraska side. Numerous ...
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Baseball
World Record
At 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 19, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, there will be an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the Largest Game of Playing Catch. In order to officially set the record, which is currently held by Willow Creek Community ...
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Callings
The calling of a musician is not acoustic perfection. The calling of a musician is to use their gifts and abilities to create melodies and harmonies, a soundtrack that will inspire, heal, and give strength to our cluttered hearts and ...
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Play Attention
On January 4, 2018, I watched Daniel anchor the early morning news while my daughters finished getting ready for school. For no logical reason whatsoever, I decided to send the anchor with the perfect smile a message.
“Crazy question. ...
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Baseball is Slow. Good.
At 3 PM, on Friday afternoon, Dad and I drove to Hammons Field to cheer on the Missouri State University baseball team in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The weather was perfect — only one small, cotton-ball cloud was spotted in ...
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