A Pause

A Pause

   Just a quick note that once again, there will be a slight pause in these posts as my wife and I escape for a getaway, one without the internet, without the dogs, without the television...one with only books and nature and the quiet chatter of friends and conversation. 

   In the meantime, I can heartily recommend this story from years back, a story listed by editor Glenn Stout as one of his best of the best of the best, and it's about baseball...but nothing like you'd think.  It's by sportswriter, Bill Plaschke, who wrote this for the LA Times, and one which goes back nearly 15 years but is in fact, timeless. 

   There's an old saying from author Anne Lamott -- "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."  We are taking her words to heart...back with you in less than a week.

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