Many thanks to the fine people at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore – Ed and Ann Berlin, and event coordinator Rebecca Oppenheimer – for including me in the store’s inaugural Starts Here Reading Series and allowing me to read from my book Deadball, A Metaphysical Baseball Novel. In addition to dusting off my reading out-loud-skills, developed long ago when my kids were still young and still wanted me around, I also had the pleasure of meeting and listening to fellow authors Jill Yesko, author of Murder in the Dog Park, and Lisa Airey, author of Touching the Moon. Thanks to everyone who came out.