Don Draper would not buy the world a coke…but not for the reasons you think.
Where Have All the Manners Gone?
Jon Sindell requests your kind attention to this piece about courtesy.
Mr. Blake, My First Man of Baseball
Jon Sindell remembers the man who believed in him as a kid – and a ballplayer.
Mud Boy, Blood Boy: A Brothers’ Tale
In this flash fiction from The Roadkill Collection, two brothers with an absent dad grow in distinct ways.
Butterfly, Brick: A Garden Fairy Tale
When it comes to quarreling, men and women can be entirely different landscape elements.
Bitter Root: A Story of Marriage and Borsch
In this story from The Roadkill Collection, food can make or mar a marriage.
The Roadkill Collector
In the title story from The Roadkill Collection, a once–bullying lawyer seeks redemption in the road.
Home Run: The Power and the Glory
This excerpt from The Mighty Roman Baseball Blast shows what homers are all about.
El León, “The Closer”
Hero or goat, The Closer holds fans’ hearts in his hand.
A Baseball Fan’s Serenity Prayer: To Be Surrounded With Kindred Lovers of The Game
True baseball fan Jon Sindell gives up on baseball non-believers.
Football’s Fatal Flaw
Why football’s inherent violence makes it esthetically corrupt— and downright un–American.
This Is What Happens When Grown Men Fail To Support Teens
How a teen lost himself in the absence of support from the men in his life.
Chief Wahoo Must Go
It’s ONE! TWO! THREE! strikes you’re out at the old ethnic stereotyping game.
That One Great Play: My Shining Baseball Moment
Jon Sindell tells how a savvy tip from an old–school baseball man yields fruit two dozen years later.