Ready Position.

His daddy was a baseball player. His grandpa was a baseball player. Only made sense that Ben would be the third generation to lace up his cleats.

TBall is a little-known life lesson: Be ready.

These preschoolers spent inning after inning in ready position. But you know what? Ready as they had been positioned, I didn't eyeball one time in a season of Saturday & Sunday morning games that they were ready. Ready for what was coming right at 'em [usually a ground ball rolling in the powdery-fine dirt of the diamond]. And it didn't get them down. They chased down what they were after - and got right back into ready position.

Long story short: you can spend your whole life in ready position, but you can't be assured that you'll be ready for what it throws [or rolls off a tee] your way.

I thought I was ready for T-ball season. But I never expected that lesson to be thrown at me.

The MomStache

okay. my time recently spent in retail may best be described as a career digression. but wow. do i get a bird's eye view of the public. all shapes. sizes. demeanors. sexual preferences. but i digress...

tonight it was literally christmas in july. bizzy. people were declaring independence from a friday of work with a selection of summer reads. some paperback. some porn.

it was tonight i saw what seemed to be a parade of women. with moustaches. God bless the ones that tried out the tried & true sally hansen bleach. or those that just go all madonna au natural [i'd hate to see 'em in a tank top] and maybe a few like me are good at masking those moustaches [it's in my genes, along with these bushy not-quite brooke shields eyebrows] with wax.

but it's time for me to come clean about my momstache. tom tried to make fun of my bushy [not to be confused with republican] upper lip. but i'm not to proud to say it. i shave it. with an electric razor. tom's, at that. wow. what a win-win marriage we have where hygeine is concerned.

so from hair, i mean here, on out - let it be known that the battle with the momstache has been fought, but not necessarily been claimed a victory.