I’ve still got three things to do before I can actually write a chapter in Book of Blues Prequel. But once those things are done, then its just me and those Book of Blues. A watching the final season of Royal Pains should do the trick. For me, writer’s block seems to be a forced […]
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Preparing to attend the Church of Baseball
I’m distracted, frazzled. Procrastinating. Afraid of taking the next few necessary steps to get my my publishing career on track. In three days I get to attend the home Church of Baseball – Wrigley. Some people go to places to laugh and experience. I usually like to go to places to screw my head on […]
Oldold Man Finn’s Never Been to Fenway Park – Part 2
My aunt and uncle just took a tour of New England. One night put them close to the college town in Maine where I was born. She called from near my hometown and I asked her if she would take me pictures of the place since I hadn’t been there in awhile. She obliged. Family […]
Summer of Cornhole in Indiana
A friday night in Duneland. Much like how the card game Euchre grasped our area forefathers’ attention, “Cornhole” has Pied Pipered the state of Indiana. Also known as “Bean Bags,” Cornhole has worked its way from the college towns into the fabric of every mill town, state road intersection township, and watering hole found between Illinois […]
“What Does It Matter?”
Talk of Aaron’s Sorkin’s Sports Night at work lead to a talk to about how Season 1, Episode 19, Eli’s Coming, featured not one but two Three Dog Night songs. Yes, very good. The other being Never Been to Spain. This is the lesson I’m learning this week. When I was 19 I knew where life […]
OldOld Man Finn’s Never Been to Fenway Park – Part 1
OldOld man Finn spends most of his evenings during the Summer in his paneled breezeway with mismatched brown carpet, stretched out & half-napping in his La-Z-Boy while watching baseball on the 27-inch 4:3 TV which sits to his right at an almost 90-degree angle. Holding the remote on his left thigh with his left hand, […]
Summer in the City; Church of Baseball
Life sent me to Chicago this past weekend. A lifetime love had me, my sister, and part-Cassidy sharing good times while sitting in pampered club seats at a baseball game Saturday. It started last Tuesday night when I was playing co-ed softball for the company. Being 40 lbs. overweight & 8 months from the gym […]
The Ballad of McKinley Morganfield and Chester Arthur Burnett
Allow me to introduce you to McKinley Morganfield and Chester Arthur Burnett. They’re more commonly known by their nicknames as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf are considered second generation Bluesmen, inspired by legends including Son House, Blind Willie Johnson and the like. Both born in the Mississippi Delta around the same […]
Big Country’s Garage State Park
Sometimes when I’m hanging out with my lifelong friends I feel like I’m at a tourist attraction. They start talkin’ ’bout cars and box head wrenches and I go, “I believe you.” Take the fun I had with Prophet n ‘Country last night for instance: I called Prophet as I was getting in my two-year-old […]
When to Make Professional Decisions in Your Private Life
Max Power’s words still hit home a day later. He’s right. I need to take my journey to publishdom with more of a professional attitude despite my personal entwining with the project. My goals ain’t going to accomplish themselves. There might be a little improvise and a little compromise, but it will still take uncompromising […]