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Monday Musings Potpourri: Travel, Music, Soccer

Posted on March 11, 2024 by dbjackson

I’ve taken a couple of weeks off from the blog recently — a week here, a week there. When I came back to the blog after all that happened last year, I chose to do so on my own terms. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Family, Soccer, and the Women’s World Cup

Posted on August 21, 2023 by dbjackson

Earlier this year, I wrote a post about Title IX (which became law a half century ago) and the impact women’s sports have had on our culture, our society, and my family. I received a fair number of comments on … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Title IX, Soccer, and My Family

Posted on February 20, 2023 by dbjackson

This past weekend, Nancy and I went up to Nashville to see the U.S. women’s national soccer team play Japan in a group stage match of the She Believes Cup. The tickets were a gift to us from our younger … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: What Matters? Part V — Frivolity and the Importance of Things That Don’t Matter

Posted on January 30, 2023 by dbjackson

For all of January, I have been writing about “what matters” and what doesn’t. I’ve written about this in terms of our personal lives and our professional ones. And I fear I have left readers with the impression that, in … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Why I Love Soccer, and You Should Too

Posted on November 28, 2022 by dbjackson

Unless you’ve been in a food coma for the last two weeks, or have been so mesmerized by the constant influx of sales emails coming from every vendor under the sun that you can think of nothing else, you probably … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Some Hard Truths About Me

Posted on September 12, 2022 by dbjackson

I don’t do well with change. You know how little kids have trouble with transitions, how you need to warn them about impending shifts in circumstance? “Sweetie, I know it’s been fun visiting Grandma and Grandpa, but in a few … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: Roger Angell, 1920-2022

Posted on May 25, 2022 by dbjackson

If you are not a baseball fan, and not a reader of The New Yorker, chances are the news of Roger Angell’s passing, at the age of 101, had little significance for you. But if you are familiar with his … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Baseball, Opening Day, and Childhood Dreams

Posted on April 4, 2022 by dbjackson

Baseball season opens this week. That might not seem like a big deal to you. And in truth, it’s far less of a big deal for me now than it used to be. But once upon a time, Opening Day … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: My Favorite Things!

Posted on January 17, 2022 by dbjackson

We are in the midst of a rainy-soon-to-be-snowy weekend here, and I am thinking about my Monday Musings post, looking for something fun and cheery to write about. There are always world issues to address, and I have been up … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Sports and COVID

Posted on February 8, 2021 by dbjackson

Last year, on the weekend of the Super Bowl, I wrote a post for that following Monday about the power of sports in our culture. In it, I noted that the Big Game was one of the few truly shared … Continue reading →

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