Show Your Scars

Patrick at 8, zipping around like a mad 8-year-old on a mini-bike, hits a pothole. He goes head-over-heals, sailing over the handlebars and does a superman slide for ten yards across pavement and gravel.
His mom decided a hospital trip would be overkill: “There’s nothing to stitch,” she said. Instead she wrapped it with […]

Jesse reports that he was not only playing baseball, he was playing it in “superstar” mode. At the time, he was nine years old. He dove, making a spectacular diving, floating, parallel to the ground catch. Meanwhile, a long stick that was about in inch in diameter, lay in the grass waiting. […]