I had a bit of trouble writing my column last week. Normally, I fly right through these things. But after struggling to come up with an idea for a few days, I started to believe that my column ideas had been stolen.I ran this theory past several of the people I depend on to proofread and check ...
You know how it is: You’re on a six-hour road trip by car with an old friend, and you talk about anything that comes to mind. Old girlfriends. Crazy incidents from playing in bands together. Exactly what the heck is in a jujube?“Aren’t jujubes hard?” my buddy asked in passing. “And ...
I’ve been in the “music game” for 57 years, ever since my mom bought me my first bass guitar outfit when I was 16. As a musician playing six nights a week for many years, I logged hundreds of thousands of miles in VW Beetles, minivans, panel trucks, box trucks and even hearses.Gigs in the ...
I have a confession to make. Even though I write for a newspaper, I don’t sit down in my recliner every day and pore over a physical copy of any newspaper. But I do peruse the news online. So I find out what’s happening not only locally, but nationally and worldwide. I’ve come a long way ...
Humans love to make lists. Honey-do lists. Enemies lists. Best of; worst of. In fact, we love lists so much that in 1977, “The Book of Lists” (BOL) became a bestseller, its popularity spurred in part by some libraries banning it because it included lists of a sexual nature that some deemed ...
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, archaeologists may find a tattered, scorched volume of U.S. history in the rubble outside Disney World. An excerpt:The United States rose, a fully formed nation of 51 states, from the primordial soup in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1776. ...
