Tag Archives: baseball

Baseball and the Amateur

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Richard Cass

One of the reasons I love baseball (and boy-howdy, do I miss lying back in the recliner after a long day of word-wrangling and sinking into those rhythms and sounds), is that for the most part, it’s played by normal-sized … Continue reading →

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Spring In My Step

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Brenda Buchanan

It’s here! It’s here! Spring’s finally here! It was a long, damn winter, wasn’t it? The pre-Christmas snow. The post-Christmas cold snap that went on f-o-r-e-v-e-r. The ice and the slush and those three annoying nor’easters in the month of … Continue reading →

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Three Generations of Maine Writers and One Packed Away Clown Mobile

Posted on September 9, 2016 by mainecrimewriters

The heroes (and villains) in our books all have origin stories. Most writers do too. I never knew my parents. I was left in the care of a gruff aunt and uncle on a desert planet with two suns and nothing … Continue reading →

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Baseball is Life; Life is Baseball

Posted on June 9, 2016 by mainecrimewriters

By Brenda Buchanan Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. Pulitzer prize-winning poet Sharon Olds said that, and she’s right. Especially in this crazy political summer that we all know is … Continue reading →

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Red Sox Sadness

Posted on October 1, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

Vicki here on October first. A dark, rainy day in Maine — an appropriate time to express a little sorrow over the ending of the Sox’s season just a few short days ago. I’ve been holding it all in, going about … Continue reading →

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