After attending several hundred baseball games — majors and minors — in 20 years in Southern California, I have been to exactly two in nearly 13 years in Georgia. Time just passes so damn fast. Both games, the first in 2012 and the second in 2018, were the Washington Nationals coming to Georgia to play …
It was the winter of 1981 — February, I think — and I was suffering after a tough breakup. I was driving in Fairfax, Va., heading to a dance at the old Huddleston Library with two young ladies who were members of my college newspaper staff. Tara Hagenbrock and Ilissa Klein, as I recall. I …
I don’t know if it’s possible to tell this story without spoilers, but I’ll do my best. Have you ever seen a 2 1/2 hour movie that you wanted to see so badly that it could never have lived up to your expectations, but that was a huge disappointment until about the last 15 minutes? …
I suppose the best way to look at this is simply never to say never. Most of us have lists of things in our mind that we want to do before we die and things we would never do if we lived a thousand years. One thing I never particularly wanted to do was take …
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If there’s one thing surprising about America’s reaction to the death of game-show host Bob Barker this week at age 99, it’s that “The Price is Right” was on the air for a long time before and now a long time after Barker. In fact, after nine years on the air and then a seven-year …
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Under the heading of blind squirrels and occasional acorns … I read a lot of political columnists. Most of them because I enjoy them or appreciate ther intelligence and style, but occasionally I read ones I have little or no use for just to see what folks on their side of the spectrum are thinking. …
There are so many things I could have done, would have done but didn’t do. Sixty years ago tomorrow was one of them, maybe the most significant historical event of my life that I could easily have attending, but as far as I can remember, never even considered. On August 28, 1963, I was living …
It’s wonderful not having to watch political stuff, news or commentary on television. Say what you like about the internet, and there is both good and bad to say, but being able to pick and choose what I watch after the fact does wonders for my blood pressure. I subscribe to two of the best …
I have never created a meme. In fact, I didn’t even know till recently if the word was pronounce “MEMM” or “MEEM.” or if it mattered which it was. I have on the other hand seen hundreds if not thousands of memes created by other people. There were two huge ones in the early days …
Say what? I suppose this news shouldn’t surprise me. After all, we are taking about Republicans here, but when expected Trump voters were asked if they would believe something told to them by Donald Trump, their own family and friends, conservative media figures or religion figures, guess what. Well, he does love the poorly educated. …
