Quibbles And Bits: Cats, Beatles, Fantasy

by Kevin Burton    Our younger cat Lakin is a great leaper, has a good set of lungs and is eager to communicate.    And she’s wild about exercise. I should be so wild about exercise.    You share your living space with two cats, you find out a few things.    Like on a …

Please Help Support Baseball For Blind Players

by Kevin Burton    In five-plus years I have never asked you readers for anything on Page 7, except for your attention and maybe to suspend disbelief a time or two.    Today’s post is a little different. So what’s gotten into me today? Why am I asking for your help?    Well, you could …

More Musing On Life, Baseball And Pete Rose

by Kevin Burton    One day I answered the phone and instead of a typical getting I heard, “Your boy’s in jail.”    Baseball was one of the few things that my father and I could talk about peacefully. But we had a disagreement about Pete Rose.    I loved Rose, who died Sept. 30 …

What Does Blind Barbie Mean Really?

by Kevin Burton    I was on the road playing beep baseball when the e-mail notifications about the first blind Barbie doll came pouring in. And I mean they poured in, from every quarter.     I thought, that’s a story. But then I realized, I had no idea what to think or say about it. …

I Scream For This Belated Ice Cream Post

by Kevin Burton    If I  say “better late than never” do you say “amen”?      Well in this case, my wife does.    National Ice Cream month was last month, July, not August.  That I didn’t squeeze out a participatory post in honor of the occasion is a black mark against my blogging record. …

Little-Known Facts About McDonald’s

by Kevin Burton    I used to think I liked McDonalds chicken nuggets – until the time I forgot to ask for barbecue sauce.    Oops!    McNuggets are my choice at McDonalds because I hate everything else. McDonalds in not our restaurant rotation.    When we travel to beep baseball tournaments this summer we …

Let Your Work For Jesus Be Wholehearted

by Kevin Burton   Half-heartedness in the service of Jesus, makes Jesus sick.     The Bible says so. This is a message from Jesus to the Church at Laodicea:    “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot …

Wife Carrying: A New Sport For The Burtons?

by Kevin Burton    Now this one has potential.    On the Dictionary Scoop website I stumbled upon an inspired idea for a new sport my wife Jeannette and I can get involved in. The website called it “weird” and “unique” and it is both.    Wife carrying.    I am psyched!    So fortunate …

Dallas Defense Was The Stuff Of Fantasy

by Kevin Burton    Before she went to bed Sunday night I told my co-manager/wife that we had lost our Muppets of Beepball League fantasy football opener, because we trailed by 46 points.    The opponent was out of players but all our K&J Silvers team had left was one running back and our defense. …

My Big Feat, Finding Cleats For My Big Feet

by Kevin Burton    Don’t know how much I will play at the 2023 Beep Baseball World Series or how well I will do. But I know one thing: My shoes will fit.    And that’s a very good start.    My high school math teacher wrote down “Yale” as a suggestion for where I …