Twenty Twenty Two
In the closing days of 2021, I found myself in a melancholy state caught between retrospection and introspection, facing my personal demons who still linger. I still yet needed to release the held back tears of over a decade and a half of constant struggle and suffering. Shortly before Tom and I had a year-end […]
Thoughts on Laozi, Taoism, and Leadership
Leaders should do what they feel is best for their people, whether or not the leader believes that decision to be popular. It is a leader’s responsibility to use force as little as possible, and violence as the ultimate last resort. In the use of force, lives are often put at risk and risking lives […]
Let’s Analyze Emily Dickinson’s Poem #632
What does Emily Dickinson mean when she writes, “the brain is wider than the sky”? Emily Dickinson’s Poem #632 seems to revolve around the human mind as its theme. The first stanza, after which the poem is commonly titled, is what instantly drew my eyes to this poem. “The Brain – is wider than the […]
Why You Should Follow Your Curiosity
Why It’s Important to Have Obscure Curiosities and Be an Omnivore of Ideas Without getting too philosophical, I have found that spending my time investigating obscure curiosities is the best way to not get too involved with the problems of the present moment. One of the great paradoxes that exist within the human mind is […]
How Becoming a Better Editor Made Me a Better Writer
Since the 2020 pandemic, my primary focus in my life was to make the best of my writing archives. As of September 2022, however, my focus has shifted slightly: make my writing archives better. This is, in fact, a very straightforward process. Find the posts that used to get love and improve them, then find […]
Happy Rickey Henderson Day!
Happy Rickey Henderson Day! Today we’re celebrating the greatest base-stealer and base-on-balls taker in Major League Baseball history! Now, you may be thinking, isn’t December 25th someone else’s birthday, too? Thing is, the Lord Jesus Christ most likely wasn’t even actually born on December 25th. He was likely born closer to April or May. I […]
Every Red Sox Player Ever – Don McMahon
Don McMahon may not be a household name, but he was a pretty good baseball relief pitcher for almost two decades. He actually pitched in Major League Baseball until he was 44 years old! McMahon would spent parts of two of 18 seasons in MLB with the Red Sox, and pitch fairly well in the […]
Red Sox Sign Relief Pitcher Chris Martin
Were you not familiar with effective middle relievers in Major League Baseball, you’d probably think that the Boston Red Sox signed the lead singer of Coldplay. But, this Chris Martin is a baseball pitcher, and he’s a pretty good one.
The Inevitable First Contact with Slimy, Vile Creatures from Another Dimension
Here’s a thought that I find myself thinking quite often: a form of life from a dimensional plane on which regular humanoid life would melt. These would be slimy, vile creatures that we somehow need to make peace with and cordon off the gateway to their realm. This thought comes directly from taking issue with […]
Did the Red Sox Overpay Masataka Yoshida?
How good will Masataka Yoshida be for the Red Sox? Like most baseball pundits, I do believe this is an overpay, but not as much as some people in the media would lead you to believe. Baseball America wasn’t all that glowing in their scouting report on Masataka Yoshida, giving him an above-average contact grade, […]