Snow Day at the Dugout

(this story appears in Old Roads and Shadows, an eBook )

 

Snow Day at the Dugout

Great moments amid free enterprise

This story appears in the following book.

Musings on the Holocaust and the power of symbol, baseball, houseboats, motorcycles, Yosemite hiking, dreams, the artist’s life, entering the Army, leaving the Army, personal loss, a neighbor’s dog, accidents, scouting, direct sales, a mother’s gift, Little Tokyo, the White Mountains, Nantucket Island, lost love, winter in New Hampshire, the wind of Death Valley, and more.

Contains the following stories:

 

A Special Cup of Coffee
Joan Osborne
The Ocean House
Bobby Fischer - In Memoriam
The Cosmic Bridge of November 1999
Talking to Carla Jean
Reunion
Murder at Midnight
Blood Mountain
Brautigan Gift
Dog-Day Afternoon in the Laguna Mountains
Salters Pond, Beau Geste, and the Return of the Vikings
Suit
Snow Day
A Husband Dies
Worms
Cheers and Slainte
Shoehorn
Burial Detail
On a Beach on Nantucket
La Grange
Mt San Jacinto, Winter 1991
Mt San Jacinto, Summer 1992
September 1959
Out of a Blue Sky
Mt San Gorgonio
Leigh Lake
Paper and Fire
Manchester Redux
The Dreams of a Young Man
Empty Bottle
I'm Seeing Keith Richards in the Morning
In the Grass of Mt Diablo
With Carlton Fisk, Forever
Induced Enlistee
First Flights
Leaving the Army
Snow Day at the Dugout
Off the Shoulder of Orion
In the Mind of the Artist
Baseball and Coffee
Foul Ball
Sto Lat
Dreams
Saint
Sentinel Snow
Norman
Beginnings
October 5, 1980
Pasadena Lunch
Scouting, and the Tattoo Merit Badge
Chairman of the Board
The Product
Houseboat
The Fokker U 2
Piece of Work
Death Valley Wind
Awash and Adrift on the Hockanum River
Little Tokyo Moment
Born to Love Baseball
Heinrich Harrer
Reluctance
Song for Hollister
The Road to Paradise
Oscar Wilde on Death
The Queen City
Popcorn
Elevator
Incident at Evergreen Lodge
Cuyamaca Mountains - Joy and Renewal

(approx 110,000 words)

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