If Dansby Swanson decides to heat up his bat the second half of the season, I’m good with it. 2 HR yesterday, 2 more today and it’s only the 3rd inning! #Cubs #MLB

Eh I don’t like that share sheet. Let’s try again.

#running

Still hotter than Hades but a better run than yesterday!

First run this morning in a new pair of shoes. Like the shoes. Would’ve liked the run better if it weren’t already 80F with 90% humidity at 5:45 AM.

A pair of blue ASICS running shoes sitting on a patio table

The Sign of Them That Believe:

The real problem with fear is how it cripples love, how it enslaves us to self-preservation rather than freeing us for self-giving.

That’ll preach.

2026 Reads: Korean Messiah by Jonathan Cheng 📚

A meticulously-researched account of the formation of perhaps the greatest ever cult of personality.

Today Becky and I celebrate 28 years of marriage. Thankful. Planning a low-key day and an outing with the kids tonight. We’ll find space for a special night out next week. Such is life!

A tall man wearing a ball cap and a shorter woman with a pretty smile post for a selfie in front of a desert landscape

Watching the Fever - Mercury #WNBA game tonight. Officiating is just so awful. Terrible calls on the floor, way too many long game stoppages for “instant” replay reviews, no idea what these refs are looking at. If the WNBA wants to be a legit league they have to fix this.

2026 Reads: There is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm 📚

Fantastic concept, uneven execution. Still gripping and unlike anything I’ve ever read.

Justin Steele is out for his second season. Cade Horton out for the season. Matthew Boyd’s been out for a while. Jameson Taillon is out until after the all-star break. And now Cabrera? Shota’s the only guy left, and he’s been on the IL already this year. Bad luck? Bad training?

#MLB #Cubs