Christmas Candles

“Excuse me, sir? Could you help us?’ I looked up from a chicken biscuit, Coca-Cola, my Bible, and journal to meet the gaze of a determined man. He was bundled up for a blizzard. His boots, pants, jacket, and sock hat were all worse for wear—like they’d...
The Greatest Season of All

The Greatest Season of All

My dad was my hero, and I’ve missed him every single day of the 23 years since he got called up to “The Show” by God Himself. I wrote this reflection in 2003, just a few weeks before he passed away. Baseball is a gentleman’s game played in bursts of heart-stopping...