I lost my job today and ducked into Sammy’s Bar and Tavern. I saw a news report this morning that said it’s the highest unemployment rate since 1980-something, and then another that said the 70s. In Sammy’s though, people ate burgers on Texas Toast and watched the Cubs game. Summers in the midwest give people [...]
Posts Tagged ‘baseball’
Memory and Baseball
Posted in my life, tagged baseball, brother, ee cummings, forgetting, home town, loss, memory, park, photographs, space suits, toxic waste on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
love is more thicker than forget. – ee cummings There is a park in my hometown that was built on a toxic waste dump. I played baseball there and remember warm evening sun and tanned faces, the feeling of the ball in my glove as I grabbed it from the sky, and the nervous [...]
Wild geese and scraped knees.
Posted in short shorts, tagged baseball, flower, summer, wild geese on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I used to have an old man as a neighbor who would tell us a story about wild geese flying over a lake. He told us every summer back when the only thing you had to worry about was breaking in your baseball glove and the only pain around were bee stings and scraped knees [...]
I had heard about hawaii.
Posted in favorites, short shorts, tagged baseball, childhood, hawaii, pineapple, sisters on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Did you hear about Hawaii?” my father says. “What about Hawaii?” I say. I heard all about it last week, but tango on they say. “Your sisters are taking your old man on a trip!” “Oh yeah? You’re going to Hawaii with Caroline and Margaret?” They live in New York. Even I admit that it [...]
