Next weekend will be my 17th Father’s Day. As the dad of a child with profound special needs, my day will be anything but that of a typical dad, or a typical Father’s Day. My son is totally non-verbal and so for the seventeenth consecutive year, he won’t wish me Happy Father’s Day. My son has limited motor skills so there will be no Happy Father’s Day card for me. No … [Read more...]
More than a Uniform
They couldn’t be any more different. Coach and my son. Coach spends his afternoons and weekends coaching, instructing, and developing high school athletes into skilled baseball players. It’s his passion. He spent so much of his own life on the baseball diamond fueling his own competitive aspirations. He was drafted right out of high school by the Atlanta Braves. He was … [Read more...]