Category: Life
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A Bizarre Game in the Sun
I stepped away from drama and author duties today to coach my softball team in our final tournament of the year. We won both of our games (5-4) and (33-0). The score of the last game might stand out a little bit. It was one of the stranger and most excruciatingly painful games I had…
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More Silly Things to Write About: Tabs
I suppose it’s part of getting older – reminiscing about one’s earlier years – comparing life of today to what it was like when you were a kid. Boy, I sound just like everyone’s parents sounded about thirty years ago. The cycle recycles the new into the old and the must have, must talk about,…
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What Other Game? – Thoughts on Opening Day 2015
Opening day of baseball. It’s an important rite in my life and has been since I was young boy. It’s the quintessential American way to finally put winter to rest – regardless of the actual weather. I’ve loved baseball ever since, as a nine-year-old boy, I started listening to the Pirates broadcasts of Milo Hamilton…
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Do Teens Realize How Uncool They Are About to Become?
I was reading one of those silly, time-wasting posts on Facebook the other day. This one was a list of some of the most epic failures in parent-teen texting–you know the kind–the kind where the parent is a complete clueless idiot, like the mother who added WTF to her daughter’s SMS thinking it meant “Well…
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Shade: Are you offering it?
A couple weeks back, we were walking to a Chinese New Year feast at the house of some friends, and my wife and I found ourselves skipping from shade patch to shade patch to escape the blazing sun. It was one of those stifling days where your sweat can have sweat of its own even…
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A Break From Routine: Softball on the Malay Peninsula
I had a great day getting out of Penang today and heading an hour and a half south to the state of Perak where we had our first day of games in a beautiful setting buttressed up against some mountains in the town of Taiping. Softball may not be the first sport you think of…
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Another Food Blog Entry – Thai Basil
I’m in such a foodie mood lately. Yesterday’s post on the amazing Vietnamese dish “Bun Bo Nam Bo” got me thinking food, so here’s a short follow-up on an essential ingredient in many southeast-asian dishes – Thai Basil. Thai basil makes itself known in a couple ways. First, its smell. Just bringing it into the…
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Bun Bo Nam Bo – Perhaps the Best Noodle Dish Anywhere
Tucked away in a little corner near Hang Da Market in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, is a little noodle shop known far and wide as “Bun Bo Nam Bo”. Let’s break apart these luscious words which construct the tastiest of dishes. “Bun Bo” simply means beef noodle. “Bun” being the round rice noodle and “Bo” meaning…
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TV Set in Kid’s Bedroom
Sometimes things are so self-explanatory that they really don’t need any commentary, correct? I came across this sentence in an on-line article this week: “Furthermore, two thirds of children in the U.S. now have television sets in their bedroom, which means that parents have less regulation over what their child is watching.” Did anything in that…
Author Mark W Sasse 