Weber Creative

http://www.weber-creative.com Tumblogging all my interests into this one place. i am a realtor, a sportscaster, journalist, artist, teacher and author.

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Failure to observe the world in an upright position

Failure to observe the world in an upright position

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Gratitude for book banning?

Filling minds with fear stokes curiosity, fortifies the value of As a kid, there were two places outside of the confines of my bedroom space that provided a safe and healthy zone. Baseball fields like Fitzgerald Field, and the Tucker Library. My imagination, my dreams, my thirst for knowledge and escape, all weighed in when my mom or dad dropped me off for a few hours. It wasn’t always easy to…

Gratitude for book banning?

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Soccer has always been a beautiful game

I was thinking about how long it took for the US to consider soccer more than a minor sport, and when I rummaged through the archives of the newspaper of my youth, I saw that historians of the day, those editing and penning the daily newspapers of my home town, tried to get the oddity into the southern psyche. I was a kid when we saw Pele w his Santos team play a friendly at Atlanta-Fulton…

Soccer has always been a beautiful game

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Tap your helmet!

Yes, I’m on board… since home plate umps have been castrated already any way Sorry for the disturbing word, but it’s not a knock on umps. The truth is, MLB and the union and the umps took the teeth out of the Earl Weaver/Billy Martin/nextGenManager arguing back in the 80s, if not sooner. No personality from umpires allowed, sadly. And they have demanded umps adhere to the (ridiculous) idea of…

Tap your helmet!

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Where have I gone?

My “self” seems inaccessible under challenges of caregiving I researched the World Wide Web and found more of what I’ve learned from others face-to-face or post-to-post; I hate myself. Here’s what the fire has forged in several years of caregiving, but most notably the past several months. Impatience. Frustration. Yelling. Tears. Confusion. From me, the caregiver. I’m a spiritual guy, but far…

Where have I gone?

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Step back and rethink boundaries in caregiving

Admitting the problem may be me doesn’t have to be destructive I’m a momma’s boy. Always have been. My dad was an awesome dad, but we know who coddled the baby in the family. I admit it. She taught me the healing value of love, the leadership found in kindness and the command to fiercely defend and support family. And thanks to dad and her boys, she learned to love baseball. Which is why it’s…

Step back and rethink boundaries in caregiving

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Caregiving is impossible, if you think you're perfect

People on social media are so nice. Let those words sink in. Perhaps because I don’t engage with asshats and perhaps because I try to share positive things that might be of interest to people who I really care about… but when it comes to sharing pics and posts (primarily on FB, the place for old farts), they are so nice. Mom having a nice lunch at the Joslyn Art Museum A few years back I shared…

Caregiving is impossible, if you think you're perfect

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Mom takes dad with her everywhere

They were married 73 years, for goodness sake. So when Dad finally passed away after a too-long battle with Alzheimer’s and dementia, she knew it was time for him. It doesn’t mean she isn’t heartbroken every single day, and my guess is, she will always be. Here’s a link to his obituary… https://www.bramanmortuary.com/obituaries/donald-weber And while his body needed to rest, hers refuses to…

Mom takes dad with her everywhere

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There is dust on my books

At the airport today, I stepped into a long forgotten sanctuary. The bookstore. There was a time I saw the bookstore – a substitute for the library of my youth – as not only a safe place, but a haven. Everything is there – what’s new, what’s old, what’s uncertain, what’s uplifting. As I looked through the books, it became evident I have lost sight of the seeker. Now 63-years-old, I focus on the…

There is dust on my books

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"It was a quiet too honest to break"

Covering a fallen Marine’s homecoming A young Marine, “one of us” Nebraskans loudly cried, gave his life in service for them, for Americans, during a confusing international operation: evacuation during the fall of Kabul. I was one – one of all in our newsroom – who pitched in to share his story. I didn’t really know the community intimately yet, not like John Chapman or Brian Mastre or Roger…

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QR Code's rise from oblivion

How a pandemic helped dust off a decade old tool laying in wait for the chance to be loved Deep in COVID with evaporating funds, I went back to work in the newsroom, hoping to tell some stories triggered by my observations. If I was going to leave my 91-yr-old disabled parents to go to work every weeknight, I wanted to be able to cover news that I found interesting and of value to those I…

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2024 Omaha Film Festival fills up the big screen

Annual festival at Aksarben, OFF Academy setting industry stage in Heartland Finding ways to escape has always meant movies and entertainment for our family, so much so that several generations are working professionals in the industry. So it’s normal I would on my respite days from caregiving and healing seek out the artists, and their apprentices, who have converged on Omaha for the 19th Omaha…

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Dream matchup of managers: Bochy vs. Dusty

It’s been a while since I dialed in here on Scorecard Scribblings, and I vow to return in force like Paul Crew in the Longest Yard remake. What brings me out of my posting slumber? The ALCS matchup of my clear all-time favorites as baseball managers, Dusty Johnnie B. Baker and Bruce Douglas Bochy. I so wish I had credentials and the ability to cover those games. The two best managers I ever…

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Joy of scanning the paper on a Sunday morning

Yep, I’m here defending the value – not just the past – of self curated news consumption I think it would truly benefit our industry (journalism), as well as what should be in my opinion a hallmark of our society (being an informed one) if more newspapers chose The New York Times online model. Its layout captures the ergonomic integrity of the scanning read (allowing the reader to make choices…

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NHL goalie a lock for the hall of game

He was there when his hometown NHL team needed a goalie in practice, or to be the emergency netminder, known in the game as the EBUG. That job has been “held” in its years of existence by the likes of the team trainer and an accountant, but usually is a goalie for a local college or amateur team, some times a retired goalie from the pro ranks and others a goalie in the system. Only five times…

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What does the nick of time really mean

What does the nick of time really mean

Not in the literal sense. I fancy myself a wordsmith, one who understands layers of poetry in its layers of truth and expression, so I choose my words specifically, if not always wisely. But as I sit in semi-darkness, listening to music to drown out the clouds for a moment, a song. Isn’t that what great music (one of those layers of poetic expression previously mentioned) peels back? A song for…

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When a catcher could stop a shark

When a catcher could stop a shark

The tools of ignorance are actually pretty smart. The bigger mitt. Mask. Chest protector. Shin guards. Never play without a jewel protector, aka a cup. Add the throat guard and the goalie mask, though I prefer the old school helmet. I always felt as though this standard gear means you have things pretty well covered, at least the stuff that’s important. But as it turns out, not all in the…

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