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Month: April 2024

Baseball is Back in Hagerstown!

Baseball is Back in Hagerstown!

Yes, you read that right.  After many years of absence, Hagerstown has finally rejoined the ranks of cities with a professional baseball team, which kicked off its inaugural season play on April 25th. A warm, Western Maryland welcome to the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars! The Boxcars play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), and independent league covering the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the United States.  The league has been around since 1998, and its play is considered on-par…

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The Front Porch:  Back For Another Season

The Front Porch:  Back For Another Season

The changing spring weather means a lot of things each year.  It’s time to get the garden going (my own is well on its way, with peas, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, onions, radishes, beets, lettuce, spinach and carrots all in and doing well), getting that first lawn mowing in the books, and setting up one of my favorite “rooms” of the house. The front porch. For those of you who may not know what I’m talking about, I cannot express the…

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The Eclipse Is Coming!  The Eclipse Is Coming!

The Eclipse Is Coming!  The Eclipse Is Coming!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll more than likely know that a unique celestial event is occurring today. A solar eclipse will be occurring across most of the United States during the daylight hours, visible throughout all 48 contiguous states.  In our area, while we won’t experience a “total eclipse”, we should still experience a partial one.  The big show will occur locally between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM EDT on Monday, April…

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Looking For A New Book?  Give Mine a Try!

Looking For A New Book?  Give Mine a Try!

In addition to my weekly rants here online, I also write other things, including novels and short stories.  To that end, I’m pleased to announce that my latest novel, Slipknot, is being published in both paperback and for Kindle e-reader (via Amazon) on May 1st, 2024. This is my second published work (the first, Apokalypsis, published in 2014, is also available on Amazon in both formats), and I’m excited to finally get this new work out for folks to read…

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