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 Musical World of Kaylea
In a house on Joyce Street just a few miles north of Waco, Texas, I wrote my very first songs.
While I was in seminary, wrestling with Greek and Hebrew vocabulary words, Jamie worked at the preschool at First Baptist Church of Waco. She ...
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Sophie’s Shark Dive
“On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being, ‘This is the best day of my life,’ how excited are you for the Shark Dive?” I asked Sophie as we were driving for an early lunch at Chick-fil-A.
Sophie thought about her answer just long enough ...
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September 8, 2020
I don’t really memorize anymore.
As a kid, I used to have the phone numbers of all of my friends memorized, along with random statistics of Royals players and various MLB league leaders. At one point, I had all the presidents ...
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