by mike | Sep 7, 2026 | Baseball, Basketball, Comedy/sci-fi, Football, Humor, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
Sorry, no post this week. Just been so busy. I’m about halfway through my new literary opus, Mysteries of the Bike Path (A Jack Miller Senior Moment: Book Seven), and it should be ready for public consumption by the end of the year. And I’m totally invested in the San...
by mike | Apr 13, 2026 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
As a baseball purist, I initially had some issues with the changes that have come to Major League Baseball over the last decade or so. But I gradually got used to the pitch clock, which I hardly notice anymore, the three-batter rule for relief pitchers, and—to a...
by mike | Apr 6, 2026 | Death, Disasters, Life, Uncategorized |
Five freshwater lakes in North America are known collectively as the Great Lakes. Over the centuries, numerous shipwrecks have accounted for a great number of fatalities. There are no exact figures on the number of wrecks, though estimates have ranged from 6,000 to...
by mike | Mar 23, 2026 | Aging, Baseball, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
(Balm: anything that heals, soothes, or mitigates pain.) In a couple of weeks it will be two years since I lost Jacqueline, my beloved bride, to demon cancer. Devastated? I’m sure you can imagine. For a time, I thought I’d follow close behind. So how did I survive the...
by mike | Mar 6, 2026 | Aging, Baseball, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Yes indeed, hard to believe, but today (March 6th) marks eighty years that I have walked the Earth. That’s a few decades short of Bilbo Baggins when he left for Rivendell on his birthday, but close enough. Good grief, how did this happen? Some years back my wonderful...
by mike | Feb 2, 2026 | California, Crime, Life, Uncategorized |
This is not my usual fare, but when a writer learns about something that pisses him/her off, the writer writes about it. I’ve written a number of times about the nearby Lake Calavera Preserve, as well as the adjoining Carlsbad Highlands Ecological Reserve, but always...
