“What should we do tonight? I asked Linda. “I don’t know, what do you wanna do?” “It’s New Year’s Eve, I suppose we should celebrate somehow.” For most of my adult life there was never a question about what I would be doing the last night of December. I’d be playing drums with the…
So I went ahead and shelled out an extra $3.50 a month to Midco Cable in order to get the NFL channel back and be able to see all those important football games at home instead of the bar. Now I find out the NFL has caved-in and will not only allow Saturday’s big game…
1959 was perhaps the most interesting year of my life. I was 13 and it was a year of discovery..if you know what I mean. It got off to a rough start when less than two weeks after my birthday, we heard on the radio that Buddy Holly had been killed in a plane…
I see TBS is going to run one of my favorite movies of all time, A Christmas Story, 24 hours straight again..that’s 12 times non-stop beginning Christmas Eve. I was one of those who actually went to see the film when it first came out in theaters in 1983 and have seen it at…
I’m just dreading the next trip to the doctor for my two to five year annual check-up. It’s not the snap of the latex glove and instructions to bend over that has me worried. It’s the look on his face when he checks my chart and says, “Do you know how much weight you’ve…
Linda and I have a mixed marriage. She was raised Catholic and I, of course, grew up in the one true faith..Lutheranism. Alright, don’t get your choir robes all in a bunch..I’m just kidding. I appreciate the traditions of all denominations but some of them can get pretty tight which, among other…
There have been two times in my life that I was truly afraid this country was done for. The first was in October of 1962 when President Kennedy had ordered a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships that were carrying nuclear weapons into Cuba. The two great superpowers had finally brought the world to the…
"December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy."
“Just when I think I’m out they pull me back in.” *Michael Corleone, Godfather III It’s probably not a good idea to compare myself to a mobster..even if it’s a movie mafia mobster… but I know exactly how Michael Corleone felt when, in spite of his best efforts at going straight, he just couldn’t…
I feel like an ostrich lately: burying my head in the sand to shut out the world. I know, I know, ostriches really don’t stick their head in the ground to escape things but..they do sometimes duck into the bushes to hide or just lie down and wrap their useless wings around their body..apparently trying…