I’ve been thinking about slumps. Former baseball players do that occasionally.
There are different kinds of slumps. Some are like what I had last week in our first night of softball, a doubleheader where I got up 10 times, and absolutely crushed the ball on 9 of them. I was line-driving it everywhere, frozen ropes [...]

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We had a good trip up to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving last week. I’m grateful for the family I have, and for the fact that I always have known and still know that I am loved. Thanks, mom and dad!
At Newberg Friends, the last 2 weeks have brought several deaths. Today, for the first [...]

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I honestly don’t know how I ended up in speech. I do remember that it was as a junior in high school, and it was an elective class. I know for certain that I had absolutely no intention of joining the speech team or going to any speech tournaments; it was just an elective choice [...]

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Do you remember where you were on June 5, 1986? (If you do, put it in the comments!)
That day more than 20 years ago was our high school baccalaureate service at New Hope Community Church. Asked to speak, I wrestled with how to talk about what really measured success in life, beyond accomplishments and achievements. [...]

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I forget that this little ol’ blog is out in public on the internet.
I had several people from my high school class say, “Hey, I found your blog!” John even said he reads my blog, as in, more than once. I wonder if they saw the look of panic on my face when they said [...]

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…is my 20 year high school reunion. I’ll see John and Aaron and Todd and Theresa and Lisa and Kathy and Kathi and Jim and Paul and Bob and Rick and, in a pretty amazing feat, enough players from my baseball team to cover everything but 2nd base and right field (according to the RSVP [...]

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So my memory was triggered, and here’s the picture of us speechies, 20 years ago, at PSU. We finished 2nd in the state, losing to Lincoln by only 1 point, says my yearbook. Top row, left to right, is: Keith Anderson ‘85, Susan Beck ‘87, Dan Radmacher ‘85, and Lisa Verch Fletcher ‘86. Bottom row, [...]

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This is where Lisa Verch Fletcher & I did research for our pathetic career as debate partners. When she realized “reference” meant we couldn’t check it out, she threatened to throw it out this window and grab it from the bushes below! Now she’s an award winning investigative reporter for ABC in Phoenix. The irony!

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…I was right here, with 10 friends or so, celebrating our speaking prowess. TWENTY YEARS!!

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Nobody’s even asked yet, but I know you’re all thinking it: What in the world is going on in that picture in the “about me” section of the right column? And why did I choose it?
I LOVE that picture. I only asked for one thing this past Christmas. The thing is, I asked for it [...]

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