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If Your Heart Never Breaks, You Aren’t Doing It Right

August 10, 2009 – 6:59 am

It’s not the memory of her that lingers, it’s the memory of wanting and not having. The years have transformed her into a song character, a reminder of a former life. These are gifts beyond anything I could have imagined.
I was less interested in baseball then. It always hovered at the edge of consciousness, but [...]

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Is Life Ever Good Enough?

June 22, 2009 – 7:14 am

I use baseball to mark the passage of time. The memory of specific events helps keep me grounded in a world that often makes less sense than I’d like it to make (forgive the fact that I grew up rooting for the Dodgers):

1981 — Fernandomania; Rick Monday’s homer off Steve Rogers in Montreal
1988 — Kirk [...]

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