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Find Your Shoes

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

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We were waiting in the car not wanting to be the first people at the election watch party when I got her message “I’m 176 down with six wards to go.” The basement of the bar was lit with dozens of candles. It looked… Continue Reading “Find Your Shoes”

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What We Can Learn from Ryan Braun

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

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There are lessons we can learn from Ryan Braun and they aren’t about fielding or hitting.  They’re about patience and certitude, control and timing. When Braun spoke yesterday standing by himself on the field at Maryvale, the Milwaukee Brewers Spring Training Facility in Arizona,… Continue Reading “What We Can Learn from Ryan Braun”

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What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

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