I am the usual male sports fan. Baseball is probably my favorite sport, and, like other Detroit Tigers fans, I was pumped full of excitement last winter by acquisitions the team made which seemed to strengthen them greatly and almost assure them of getting into the postseason. But this year has been a frustrating and puzzling one, marked by inconsistency, and now with a month to go in the season it is a longshot to see if they will even finish with a .500 record.
I am also a big fan of the Michigan Wolverines, and in their season opener in football yesterday, the first game under new head coach Rich Rodriguez, they tanked, losing by 2 points to Utah. Late in the game I jerked my thumb at the TV and told my wife ruefully, "I'm sure glad my salvation isn't dependent on their performance!" She grinned and replied, "Yeah - that's a good thing!"
About Me
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- My life has undergone a quantum leap of changes in the past three decades. I used to be a choral music professor at a small college in southern Michigan, but in 1993 incurred a closed-head Traumatic Brain Injury in a severe automobile accident that left me comatose for two months, hospitalized for six, and ultimately unable to communicate vocally, either by speech or song. Though I have regained a very modest amount of these abilities, it's not much. My most rewarding roles are those of husband, father, and grandfather. Also, though I was formerly an accomplished pianist, not playing from 1993-2016 robbed me of nearly all those abilities -- I am currently engaged in daily practice to see what I can regain.
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