Vive la France. Let’s see. You’ve got a country where the president isn’t all that popular, where the economy is struggling, where there’s an opposition candidate who wants to end immigration and who loves Vladimir Putin. Sound familiar? In our country, you get Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan and Klan Mom, just to name …
“I see dead people …” No, not really, although Haley Joel Osment did attend mass at the same church I did when I lived in Southern California and my daughter actually taught his Sunday school class. But I do seem to be losing people at a faster rate, and I have reached a point in …
It’s strange. You could look at my earlier lists of my 140 or so favorite songs, or the one of the albums that meant the most to me and find little or no mention of this group. But for a couple of years in the late ’60s, they might just have been my favorite band. …
Three of the finest men I know are part of my family, one in my generation and two in the next. There are two others who deserve to be in that company, my two nephews in Massachusetts and New York. As best as I can tell, there isn’t one person among the five with a …
Remember when Republicans used to be the party of big business? When I was younger, folks used to oversimplify things by saying Democrats were the party of the union halls and Republ;icans the party of the country clubs. That doesn’t seem true anymore. At least when it comes to Republicans, I feel like they’re the …
One of the toughest adjectives to define is the word “old.” I had my first experience with that more than 25 years ago when I was in a store buying a couple of autographed baseballs. I don’t remember how much they cost, but I purchased signed baseballs from Hall of Famers Frank Robinson and Johnny …
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root …” Three weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the Emmitt Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making it a federal hate crime to cause someone’s death or serious bodily injury by hanging or other actions. The bill was named for one …
This is a reprint with some revisions of something I wrote eight years ago for another website. I was watching two baseball movies — one I’d seen before — and it got me thinking. There are at least six or eight different movies I have heard different people calling the best ever and there are …
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“Once there was a woman who came into your life …” One of the great thrills of my life grew out of one of the greatest friendships. My friend Bill Madden and I are now in the 50th year of our friendship, and late in our first decade, we wrote a book together. If you’ve …
“I wanna give you a little history lesson on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practice his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that got …
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