Opinion

If you ever played baseball, you may have been told to “keep your eye on the ball.”  When batting, a baseball player is taught to watch the ball the entire time from when it leaves the pitcher’s hand to when, hopefully, their bat smacks the ball for a hit. It may sound simple, but some pitchers can throw fast and sometimes they throw a curveball. Great hitters use their vision and spot the difference, helping them get a hit. Lose focus, and in the blink of an eye the pitch has whipped past them for a strike.

I tend to like to change recipes because one never knows if a little change might make something better. Rick isn’t as excited about me changing recipes. He finds something that he likes and expects it to be the same every time. Add to my changes the fact that I never write recipes down but tend to cook with a kind of “pinch and palm” method, and some of my “recipes” can get interesting.

I barely noticed that the trees had turned beautiful before the cold came. It might very well be that these two manifestations of autumn actually coincided completely; or perhaps I have just not been paying attention.
I do enjoy the beauty of autumn leaves much more than the cold that comes with it. But so it is in life, is it not? The things we enjoy the most are usually accompanied by things we enjoy a lot less. No autumn cold, no autumn beauty.

When I was thinking of what I should write about for this week’s column, I was stumped. My mind kept drawing a blank. I stared at my computer screen waiting for the words to appear far too long. Still, I was unable to come up with an inspirational message or even a funny faux pas, both of which I try to incorporate in my column when I can. The more I thought about my conundrum, the more I realized it is similar to life’s reality.