The baseball season sneaked up on me this year. Yesterday it was January, today we’re deep into spring training—it caught me totally unawares. Can’t imagine why. It’s not as if anything else of importance has been in the news lately . . . The summers of my youth basically meant one thing: Little League baseball. …
Our long national nightmare is over. A presidency that began with the Big Lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US and, therefore, was an illegitimate president and ended with the Big Lie that Joe Biden stole the election is now confined to history. And history, we can rest assured, will not judge that …
Among my many T-shirts—we Boomers invented the T-shirt, you know!—is one that displays the Celtic Cross, under which are the words Síocháin ‘s Dóchas—”peace and hope,” in the language of my Irish ancestors. With the year 2020 happily coming to its inglorious close, I look forward to the possibility of peace and the opportunity for …