Sports (Bears) Musings: March 2020

Once again, here’s a succint bit of sporty-mind-porridge from my lobe to yours. As we’re all (hopefully) at home during this pandemic, so too are all major sports operations. In other words, there’s basically nothing to discuss when it comes to the Cubs and Blackhawks. There’s a surprising amount of Bears news to bandy about,…

Gloves

I used to really like wearing gloves when I was a kid. Like winter gloves. It was just … a thing I had. A lot of things I really enjoyed wore gloves: Mickey Mouse, Mario, Sonic The Hedgehog, etc. Everybody wore ’em. My favorite WWF wrestlers wore ’em. I was all about it. There’s at…

Stress

When I was maybe 10 years old, I was having a wretched day. School was beginning to take its toll on me, with bad grades piling up and the subsequent negative reactions to my grades at home, I was staring down repeating the 4th grade. I felt like a failure, a disappointment, an embarrassment, and…

We Got A Dog

To tell you the truth, I had never really wanted a dog. I was much more of a cat person, despite growing up with a beagle in my early years. Cats were more independent, didn’t “need” me, per se, and almost every cat I interacted with had a very positive “my space and your space”…