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Ray Craig

Sharing Midwestern stories of faith, family, work, and sports

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A New Essay at Front Porch Republic

Hey everyone,

I’m grateful to share that Front Porch Republic published one of my essays today:

“A Pleasant Blast From the Past: Why a Working Scoreboard Still Matters”

You can read it here:
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/a...

3 months ago
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One Uniform, One Story

As a kid collecting baseball cards in the 1980s, I cared about only three things: my favorite players, my favorite team, and the cards I needed to complete the set.

Rookie cards and mint condition meant little to us. My friends and I never...

3 months ago
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Breadcrumbs of Joy

On the drive home after Christmas from my mom’s, the kids and I made a pit stop in Iowa City to watch the Hawkeyes battle UCLA.

After a lap around the concourse to browse merchandise — and the requisite Carver Cones — we descended the aren...

6 months ago
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Ringing in Wonder

Ding!

Two days before Christmas, I was relaxing at my mom’s in Iowa when my brother’s text jolted me out of my easy chair — his son Parker had just been born.

I shouted the news to my mom, and we grinned and hollered like kids.

One week...

7 months ago

Waking to Wonder

At 6:30 a.m., I scoured the backyard for my son’s missing basketball shoe, hidden by a knucklehead friend as a prank.

We had torn through every corner of the house the night before. In the quiet of morning, with daylight finally helping, I...

8 months ago
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