In November and December of 2019, I dreamed of traveling and making new catch-playing friends leading up to and beyond the publication of A Year of Playing Catch in September. I had a notebook where I wrote down schedules of minor league ...
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The Scavenger Hunt – Part 30
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“Life is a blank canvas,
and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye
“The week I started this job, I received a letter from your father,” Anne said. She told her story as we walked through the gallery ...
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The Scavenger Hunt – Part 29
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton
I visited with Randall for a long time. I wanted to be intentional about this trip. With his ...
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The Scavenger Hunt – Part 28
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Dad spent one year telling me a bedtime story about a girl who traveled to Alaska. Every night, he’d pick up where he stopped the night before and told the story as if he’d lived it. The grossly abbreviated re-telling of the story ...
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The Scavenger Hunt – Part 27
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Clue Number Nine
There is a race named for a town
Where stars are big and bright
Where dogs go fast and dogs go slow
Beneath the northern lights
Go find the line where this race starts
The largest city in the state
The ...
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