Sometime in my late preteen years, I felt that we weren’t close enough for me to call him “dad” and I was too old to call him “daddy,” so I began calling him “Papa.” “Papa” seemed endearing enough that it would be acceptable, yet old fashioned enough that it would/could be somewhat formal as […]
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Two or three days ago (in April 2022), major league baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson for the leadership he provided to major league baseball and to the American way of life. I immediately thought of Mary Jean’s being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. She became a fan because that organization signed Jackie Robinson to […]
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