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        “I am living an answered prayer,” I remind myself—sitting on a bucket, shagging balls as my son throws from a homemade mound into a homemade strike zone and backstop.  He’s just home from practice and still wants to play.         “Dad, do you want to watch me pitch?” he asked when […]

               “Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him.  But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.  So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, ‘What are we going to do?  This […]

               I wrote a story yesterday, one I thought might resonate and lead someone to respond.  No one did.  Reflecting, I thought how some stories we love mean nothing to others and how others—ones we scribble in a moment, discard and dismiss—are loved for reasons we ourselves don’t see.                As a writer, it made […]

               Owen and I worked more on the basketball hoop yesterday.  I started in when I got home from the farm, and it was a slow-go, even with directions.  Directions called for plastic washers between each pivot and point of friction where bolts threaded to the frame.  I searched every box I’d opened, and I […]