One thing about getting older that’s not much fun is thinking about all the things that aren’t around anymore. One of the saddest sights I ever saw came when I was driving on U.S. 30, the Lincoln Highway, west of Crestline, Ohio, in the late ’60s. While passing a small forest on the south side …
The first contact I had with Tommy Lasorda was in 1983 in Philadelphia. I don’t remember why I was there, what I was expecting to write about, but it was only the second time I had been in a major league press box. It was an uneventful game in an uneventful season, but it contained …
“I never heard of a president like you …” In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, an embattled farmer wrote to President Roosevelt: “Dear Mr. President: This is just to tell you that everything is all right now. The man you sent found our house all right, and we went down to the …
“I’m too old for this shit.” When I think of all the pop culture references I have made over the years, the thought that I would ever quote the “Lethal Weapon” movies would be almost ludicrous. It not just Shane Black, the rootin’-tootin’est screenwriter ever.One of my favorite throwaway quotes come from another of his …
“Hello, Georgia. By the way — there’s no way we lost Georgia. There’s no way. That was a rigged election.” Just yesterday evening, Donald Trump visited Georgia, ostensibly to support Republican candidates for the two U.S. Senate seats still up for grabs. I say ostensibly because these days, when Trump goes anywhere, it’s always about …
Editor’s note: If you don’t want to see a lot of pictures of me, skip to the next blog entry. Somewhere in my mother’s house, one of two buildings I can call home, there is a 59-year-old edition of a weekly newspaper with my picture in it. It has been decades since I’ve seen it, …
It’s beginning to look a lot like … Christmas movies. Especially with people stuck at home because of the coronavirus, an awful lot of families will be watching a lot of holiday movies, both good and bad. In recent years, too many people have been trying to qualify their favorite action movies as Christmas movies …
It’s amazing when we consider things in our lives that used to mean so much to us and now mean so little. Once was a time in my life that it mattered desperately to me that the Washington Redskins would win. In fact, if I consider things that had no real effect on my life, …
There are two types of people who will read this, those who know me and those who don’t.
Perhaps more accurately, those who know my writing and those
