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For at least a week, I checked the weather every day. The night before we went, I could hardly sleep a wink out of fear that my father would change his mind. I was ten years old and living for this day to come. It was a Sunday, I think. Sometime in the early summer [...]

William F. Buckley died today at the age of 82. When I was an undergraduate, I read “God & Man at Yale,” his first treatise on the role of the university in shaping public discourse, morality and conscience. The book was published in 1951, little more than a year after his graduation from Yale. It [...]

1927 was the year that year Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first experimental television image. It was also the year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was founded in Los Angeles. Saudi Arabia became an independent nation. The anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Massachusetts. The Yankees won another Series. [...]

A picture perfect Opening Day. Ticketless and unwilling to pay $300+ for a pair, my wife and I decided to join thousands of other Cardinals fans at various celebrations around the stadium.Unfortunately, the New York Mets decided to avenge their defeat in last season’s playoffs and beat the Cards,6-1.

Sorry for the long silence. Just before Thanksgiving, I started working for Enterprise Rent-a-Car (as a prep guy) doing 30-plus hours a week. Between that, school and holiday preparations, my dance-card was pretty full. On Christmas Day, I travelled back home to New Jersey and spent a week visiting family and friends. Now I’m back [...]

In a Series that will be more memorable for pitching and errors than blazing bats, the St. Louis Cardinals last night beat the over-hyped Detroit Tigers to win their first championship in 24 years.No matter how excited St. Louisans become over the football Rams and the hockey Blues, this is a baseball town.My wife and [...]

There’s not been much activity on this site of late. My wife and I moved from one of the inner burbs to the Dogtown section of St. Louis last month. It took us five days just to get all the junk out of the old house. Thankfully, it didn’t have to be readied for another [...]

Well, no, actually it wasn’t. Last night the St. Louis Cardinals brought the curtain down on a season in which they had won 100 games. The pitching was there but the bats that had brought so much joy and hope throughout the summer were conspicuously silent. For many, it was harder to take than last [...]

For those of us born in the Bronx, last night’s 5-3 loss to the LA Angels was another bitter pill. For the fifth season in a row, the Bombers advanced no farther than the division championship. A $200 million payroll and it looked like they didn’t even show up. Where was A-Rod? Clearly, the Yankees [...]

I’m a little late with this post but Joan Didion’s cover article for the NY Times Magazine is truly worth your time. Didion, the celebrated essayist and novelist, was married to the late John Gregory Dunne. Together they doctored scripts and penned the screenplay for Up Close and Personal among others. Didion, whose prose is [...]