Archive for October 2005
Heroes from Our Past
So come on rally ‘round this brave and valiant cause
With tradition pride and honor at its core.
With swords drawn to defend,
stood these noble-hearted men.
Faugh-an-ballagh! Clear the way, me boys!
The White Sox won the World Series. Eighty-eight years have come and gone since the last time that statement was both true and relevant. Let me say […]On Baseball & Redemption
I love baseball. I cannot say that I have always loved baseball. I played baseball as a boy. I played football and basketball, too. I was not particularly good at any of these sports initially and I did not stick with them long enough to become good at them. My fondest boyhood baseball memory is […]
The Gunslinger
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Whirl and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary on Monday. This past year has been a peculiar year for both of us. We both used up all our our available vacation, sick leave and then some back in the first three months of the […]


