I often leverage my teacher trainings into vacations...(last year, Iceland). This year, I am taking a summer institute in Boston and turning it into Liberty Trail, Peabody Museum, and of course a Red Sox-Yankee game at Fenway. Who better to help me prepare for this momentous game than Stephen King, a man whose words have inspired me and made me afraid of my own closet since I was 10?

Several of the players he mentions, Carlos Beltran and Orlando Caraera are now, very recently a part of my home team, the SF Giants...that was kind of cool. Although, it did make me think ill of the changing nature of teams. It is so hard to work of a fevered fan state of mind when you know that the players will go where the money is, and all the teams are basically the same? Don't let King know I said that.