ClimbingSky

Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


BASEBALL

  • Yesterday I went to an afternoon Twins-Rockies game with my daughter Morgan at Target Field. Between rainstorms, we got to see a whole lot of offense. 26 runs for both teams. Yesterday’s 17-9 score is, of course, an anomaly. It is a football score, not a baseball one. Especially this year. According to all relevant Read more

  • Minnesota Town Ball

    Last summer, as I rediscovered my love and passion for baseball, I also rediscovered Minnesota Town Ball. Minnesota, my home now for almost 40 years, is the state with the most community-centered amateur baseball teams (called Town Ball teams). It is also the state with the most community bands. When I first started dating my Read more

  • Long Time, No Blog

    Sometime before Covid, after blogging on several different sites for more than 10 years, I wrote what I believed at the time to be my very last blog post. I closed my laptop, let the domain I had go, and started working on other “projects.” Recently though, like a phantom limb, I have been feeling Read more