Archive for May, 2012
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The Ultimate Volunteers
I’ve not posted for more than three weeks due to a trip I took overseas. While flying, I had plenty of opportunity to think about a multitude of subjects. When my wife and I travel abroad, we always return home renewed in our knowledge that all of us in the U.S. have untold opportunities to [...]
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Tear-Jerking Review of Knuckleball
“I had trouble seeing the pages at times because of the tears in my eyes. Tears of joy and tears of sadness. Both were necessary to achieve perhaps the most powerful ending I can recall. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I’m telling everyone to read it. Congratulations on such a wonderful job of telling [...]
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What Role Are You Playing?
A friend wrote me today, after completing his reading of my novel, “After I got to (certain point in the book), I could not put it down. I had trouble seeing the pages at times because of the tears in my eyes. Tears of joy and tears of sadness. Both were necessary to achieve perhaps [...]
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Our Amazing Brains
What a coincidence that my book about baseball’s and life’s knuckleballs is published in a spring when R.A. Dickey, knuckleball specialist with the New York Mets, released a book about his life. His story is inspiring, somewhat like that of my fictional character, but R.A. has overcome far different personal challenges than those of the [...]
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Death of a Professor
One of my professors when I was a student in broadcasting at Indiana University has died. Bill Kroll was a wonderful man — mentor to hundreds of students and later executive director of Radio and Television Services for IU and GM of WFIU and WTIU. Untold thousands benefited from his services to humankind. So many [...]
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