By Gary Topping– I’ve been a lifelong baseball fan. As a little kid in the late 1940s I used to listen to the World Series on the radio with my…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The start of spring training always reminds me that I was not a very good baseball player. In one season as a little league shortstop, balls…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Although reasonably romantic by nature, I missed what should have been an important landmark in our marriage—our thirty-three and one-third years anniversary. My wife Vicki and…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The most poignant life moments often are unimaginable or inconceivable until they actually occur. That’s the tagline for one of my favorite college memories—late night Sunday…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: In 2023, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary.) I have many nerdy traits. One is my unusual love for history…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: In 2023, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary.) Like the rest of us, Trappist monks celebrate round number anniversaries with…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: In 2023, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary.) I understand the concept of being there in person, or in spirit.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: In 2023, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary.) Gethsemani Abbey near Louisville, Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. For…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: In 2023, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky celebrates its 175th anniversary.) During an unusual boyhood that followed a difficult family divorce in the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– On a cold late December morning, Maria Domingo delicately laced her threadbare Reeboks, hoping to get one more day of wear from the tattered old walking…