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Love Returns

Did you ever notice that sometimes we feel surrounded while sitting alone? Do you think it’s loves warmth growing from seeds we have sewn?   Today I sit as if I need not even a… 

The Look

Please, my love, don’t ever look at another this way. This look is mine, to keep, I pray.   Please, love, don’t ever stop looking at me like this. For it’s my soul you touch,… 

Gould Hill 2014

Our annual trip to Gould Hill Farm for apple picking, apple cider donuts, and a horse-drawn carriage ride. We enjoy it every single year. I love my crew, this year, my wife and our four… 

Abrams Pond 2014

Some people take good pictures. Some people look good in pictures. Then, sometimes God just provides beauty we can’t touch but hope to capture so long as we are paying attention. I took a lot… 

Growing Pains

Perfect, I’m not, take the will from me Lord to cast a single stone If it never hurts then how can I profess to have grown

Reduction by prayer

Listening to old hymns I pray to ease my troubled heart. The enormity fades…my burden gladly bearing…how great thou art.

Forgiveness

Maybe I am all alone on this one but I am throwing whatever comes from my mind out here to be seen, read, or whatever else comes of it. Forgiveness. “I forgive you”. “You are… 

Help me Lord

I continue to pray for peace, something to ease my mind. But I close my eyes and rest is still impossible to find. Please help me Lord cuz the devils calling for a play by… 

Newton – Love and Grace

This is my 500th post to this blog and it will be pretty quick yet I wanted to share. I have written about his most famous of hymns but never have I ever delved into… 

OBX The Trip

The week was a whirlwind of travel, adapting we all deploy Mostly a magical Holiday feeling, for all ages, girl or boy Thank you my brother for your abundance of generosity Here I look deeper… 

The Beginning and the End

The Lord said, “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” But I sit here thinking on and longing for the good ole days, the past.  … 

Difference in a new day

Night time is spent spinning in the swirl of thought, uncertainty, and fear of the unknown, more than my heart can take.   Then, with prayer, silent meditation, and the promise carried by the sight of… 

Thank you Baseball

To Coach Hartwell and Coach Dodge: This morning I woke wishing we still had games left to coach, or even tournament games left to organize. Excuses for me to be at Allard Park are easy… 

Storyland 2014

Yesterday, my wife and I took our three youngest kids to Storyland in Glen, NH for a day of rides and fun. I think you will see from the pictures that we had a good… 

The Silence Before The Dream

I stand in darkness, nearly in complete silence. The night air encircles my body and it’s comfortably warm, the same, safe, and it’s just right. My face is turned to the clear sky and I… 

These words were shared

I don’t know exactly what you are going through today, but I am praying. In the chaos, frustration, and inconvenience of difficult minutes, hours, and days, look within the seconds and identify that which you… 

Local Baseball Trivia ~ What town?

In 2012, during the NCAA Division II Baseball College World Series a player from this town hit the first home run of the tournament. Then, this year, 2014, during the NCAA Division III Baseball College… 

The Wide-Eyed Boy and The Game

This is a short story I wrote because even after all of my years in baseball, playing it, watching it, writing about it, coaching it, dreaming about it, and teaching it, I was genuinely inspired.… 

Goffstown in Baseball, and the NCAA Tournament

Yes, I have lived in Goffstown, NH for the better part of 20 years. I am quite proud of the sports teams in our small town (population of roughly 17,700), especially in baseball. New Boston, NH… 

Your Marquee

Maybe put on a song you like, one that brings you back. A song that ties to something bigger than just you, and only now. Float back in time, read along with me, maybe it… 

Wooded Place

I wrote this because when I walk these woods my mind is at ease and thoughts flow more easily, carrying their own tune. This little story captures walks in those woods from my own real… 

Colebrook Cabin Trip

Once in a while I am fortunate enough to “get away from it all” and escape to the north woods of NH. This weekend was one such time. For 30 or so hours I had… 

The Wanderer, A Response

This is a response to The Wanderer. The Top 5 Places I would like to visit. These are in no particular order, and the list will likely expand as I learn of more places that I… 

Success and the P’s

Don’t let success obscure the need to proactively participate in the process of proper preparation. ~ SWB

Spring Break

It’s the morning of April 16th, and yes, we got a little more snow. In this case, spring has taken a small break. Some 36 hours before this snow blew in with wind gusts well… 

Two sides of Time

I hear it a lot, everywhere, in fact. “Time flies.” “Where has the time gone?” “There’s just not enough hours in the day.” So on, and so forth. And, for the most part I agree,… 

Today’s Cure: Healthy Imagination

After a relatively sleepless night dealing with coughs, colds, fevers, and a case of croup, the twins and I are settled in for the day. We received 3 or 4 inches of wet snow overnight.…