Joe Battista
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Battista: Remember to Eat the Heart of the Watermelon
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Can I ask you a personal question? Do you wake up every morning and start your day by counting your blessings and giving thanks for another day? Do you periodically […]
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Battista: What To Do Next – Revisited
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“Dream Big! Keep it Real. Get it Done!” – Joe Battista, From The Power of Pragmatic Passion It’s graduation season, and you know what that means? It’s time for my […]
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Battista: The True Golf God
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“What I’m doing here at 7:30 this morning is far more important than what Scottie and I do at 1:50 this afternoon.” – Ted Scott, PGA Caddie If you’ve ever […]
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Battista: Our Last Easter At MeeMaw and PapPap’s
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I recently wrote a column titled ”Farewell, Home Sweet Home” about my emotions surrounding my parents putting my childhood home on the market. Well, it got real, real fast last […]
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Battista: Hope Springs Eternal
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Spring has officially arrived and not too soon for a beleaguered Midwest and Northeast. While my wife and I enjoyed a much milder winter in Bluffton, South Carolina, even we […]
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Battista: Farewell, Home Sweet Home
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“A house without love is not a home”— Hank Williams Most of us have heard some musical or literary version of the saying, “a house without love is not a […]
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Happiness Is Fleeting. Joy Is Lasting
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“Rejoice in the Lord always; and again, I say, ‘Rejoice!’”- Philippians 4:4 (NIV) I can’t remember when I first heard the saying, “Happiness is fleeting. Joy is lasting.” I don’t […]
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Battista: Hockey in Beaver Stadium Another Dream Come True
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“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw This George Bernard Shaw quote is hanging in […]
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The (Almost) Greatest Feel-Good Story in Sports History
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The Indiana Hoosiers are the 2026 College Football Playoff national champions. Let that sink in for a moment. I can just hear Michael J. Fox’s voice as Marty McFly from […]
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Battista: Can I Survive The Elimination Diet?
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It’s that time of the year when we give all our good intentions to complete our New Year’s resolutions another try. I can probably say I have realistically been setting […]