Month: October 2013

The Ghosts of October – Doug Glanville’s Baseball

Doug Glanville who first played for the Phillies as a fleet footed center fielder now pens periodic thoughtful and brilliant articles in the NY Times.  I find all of them connecting  with my thoughts and memories of baseball. Here is another. The Ghosts of October http://nyti.ms/1heqiHh  Another Doug Glanville masterpiece. Baseball, I love it. Thanks for […]

Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone To?

Our fields here on the coast of Maine were alive with Monarch Butterflies at this time of the year as recently as  2011 as they migrated down to Central America.  But suddenly, they’re few and far between.  Here’s an article in the Boothbay Register on the subject: Where are all the monarchs? – Boothbay Register […]

A Smart New Twist In The Playwright’s Bag of Tricks Is Coming

  I got an email yesterday outlining an interesting approach to short play production that’s completely new to me and probably to you as well. It seems The Improvised Puppet Project is looking for playwrights to write the first 2-4 pages of a full-length play in any genre (comedy, drama, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurdist, postmodern existentialist […]

Very Sad Day for me – Cubs great Andy Pafko is dead.

Andy Pafko, 4-time MLB All-Star, dies at 92 http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/andy-pafko-4-time-mlb-photo-184352849–mlb.html … via @YahooSports As a kid in the Chicago area, Andy was my favorite player. My first game ever at Wrigley had the Cubs playing the Cardinals with Musial, Schoendienst, Slaughter et al. In the ninth inning the Cubs were down 3-1, 2 on, 2 outs and […]