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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Family
Dad
I rode on his shoulders as he ran laps around the indoor gym at the University of Missouri. It’s one of my earliest memories. He was getting exercise, taking a break from working on a degree in Veterinary Medicine. I was the tallest person ...
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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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