To blog or not to blog, that is the question
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Today, I digress from baseball. Quit reading now if you want to. Continue Reading
Baseball: Not an obsession, but a love
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Football is the only sport that trumps all other sports when it comes to media attention—and the football season is officially over. There are two radio stations that I listen to regularly that are advertised as 24-hour sports stations. Some people who talk about sports are better than others. However, in general, anyone who is hired to talk about any subject 24/7 has to like to listen to themselves, and anyone who listens to sports radio has to love sports. Continue Reading
THEATER | At Plymouth Playhouse, wonderfully “Marvelous Wonderettes”
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I was at Plymouth Playhouse on Saturday to see The Marvelous Wonderettes. This was my second visit to Plymouth Playhouse, the first being to review Away In The Basement, A Church Basement Ladies Christmas. As with my first visit, I found myself truly enjoying this venue—it is a warm, inviting, very comfortable theater. Maybe that is part of the reason I have thoroughly enjoyed both of the shows I have seen there. The Marvelous Wonderettes takes the audience back to the 1958 Senior Prom at Springfield High School. Continue Reading
THEATER | From dancing chitlins to rapping reindeer, Sounds of Blackness celebrate the holidays their way
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I went to see the Sounds of Blackness performance of The Night Before Christmas—A Musical Fantasy at the Guthrie Theater on December 13.
THEATER | With Anthony Fedorov, the Ordway brings “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” back to its roots
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Before the snow started to fall, I made it to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Friday night to see the Ordway’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1968 musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Remembering my mom: A life full of love—and baseball
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As the Bible and the Byrds say, “To every thing there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” The baseball season ended the last week of October—the same week that my mother passed away after five months of medical setbacks. To me, the coincidence seemed fitting. Continue Reading
Minnesota Nice does not serve the Twins well
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As quickly as the playoffs started they were again over for the Minnesota Twins. We didn’t even have a chance to say goodbye. Continue Reading
Minnesota Twins win the Central Division with room to spare
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The Twins won the American League Central Division Championship last Tuesday, almost two weeks before the end of the season! How did this happen? Continue Reading
Minnesota Twins baseball at Target Field: It’s a “happening”
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Baseball has worn me out this summer, and it’s all because of Target Field. A baseball game at Target Field is a “happening,” as we used to say. Every game has 40,000+ fans. There are so many new concessions I want to try. The scoreboard continues to amaze me. I have given up keeping score because everything I would ever want to see is available at a glance. Continue Reading
Amid highs and lows, life and baseball go on
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For the past month baseball again became the rhythm in my life when things were turning upside down. My mother has been in the hospital three times this past month and faces a long rehab after a pacemaker implant and then a broken hip. My siblings and I have spent lots of time driving to New Ulm, sitting in hospital rooms, talking to medical staff and taking care of Mom’s needs. Continue Reading