The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: baseball

  • The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp? Seriously?

    In the interests of full disclosure, I’m not a particularly big sports fan. I tend to shy away from things that encourage any form of us vs. them (now more than ever). But when I heard that my old home town of Jacksonville, Florida was changing the name of its minor league baseball team to…

  • Can Johnny Come out and Play?

    Parents don’t hear that plaintive question at their front doors very much anymore, because kids are too busy glued to their computer screens to go outside. I can’t remember the last time I saw a kid riding a bike or I had to slow down to drive right through the center of a stick ball…

  • A Steady Diet of Estrogen

    “Why do you always forget to clean under the toilet seat?” “Because I grew up in a house full of women. It never occurs to me to lift up the toilet seat.” Only recently has it crossed my mind that perhaps growing up with two sisters and a single mom has left me with certain…