I heard a song today I hadn’t heard for quite some time, and it brought back a very pleasant memory. There are four ways I can listen to music when I’m in the car. It’s rare that I play CDs, but I have satellite radio, an old iPod with 17,000 songs on it and my …
A FUN OLD SONG WAS A WHOLE LOT OLDER THAN I KNEW Read More »
One of my great pleasures when I was younger was reading newspapers. Each morning in my teens and 20s, I read the Washington Post, I don’t remember when I first started reading daily comic strips. but I know Charles Schulz started writing Peanuts when I was less than a year old and wrote his last …
I was sad when the U.S. women’s soccer team lost to Sweden Sunday, but not horribly so. Let me explain. I’m not anti-American. In fact, it probably pleases me more to see the women’s team succeed than the men’s. At least the women’s team has won the World Cup in my lifetime, something the men’s …
SAD U.S. WOMEN LOST, SADDER THAT TRUMP WAS HAPPY Read More »
Seven years ago today I lived the longest day of my life. I got up at 5 a.m., drove to Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport and caught a 7 a.m. flight to Denver. I spent the day in Colorado and caught a red eye flight back to Atlanta that arrived almost exactly 24 hours after …
I don’t have any problem with wokeness. In fact, all being woke really means is calling people what they want to be called. Sure there’s the confusion about gender — cis and otherwise — but mostly it’s avoiding the unpleasant, derogatory terms for various races and ethnicities. Yes, it gets confusing. I was eight years …
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that… he is gone. You may recognize the above quote as the last line from “The Usual Suspects,” an outstanding crime movie with a twist ending. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give anything away, so no spoiler …
There was an old saying about just how America regards its vice presidents. “There were two brothers. One ran off to go to sea and the other became vice president. Neither was ever heard from again.” Then there was an evaluation of the job from John Nance Garner, a man who held it for eight …
THREE SPOKEN WORDS KILLED PENCE’S FUTURE IN THE GOP Read More »
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood came in a library. I always thought it was an old Carnegie Library, one of the 2,509 built in the U.S. with grants from the richest man in the world. It turns out Crestline, Ohio, wasn’t on the list, but the library there — whoever built it …
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Are there still summer songs? I don’t know, but if there aren’t songs that sing of the sweetness of summer, of sunny days, balmy nights and the girls on the beach, it would be a real shame. Because there’s nothing like a summer song to help you rejoice in the time that stretches through June, …
Some people are heroes without most people ever knowing it. In the summer and fall of 2014, my brilliant scientist wife seemed to be slipping into a form of dementia. In fact, that fall after several tests, she was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, which combines aspects of Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s. Our doctors told …
