This is an "Uh Dad" sequel of sorts. Not the same story, just another one that came to mind. Phones still rang in those days. No caller ID either. Mid-afternoon,…
A note before we start. This one's a little different. Jim, my editor/son, gave me some sage advice about my blog posts. He says he, among others, would like to…
Why am I sitting on the grass near the driveway of our rented beach house? Why is my leg partially, and dangerously, under my grandson's pickup truck? Why is he…
58,000. That’s the population of the cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bozeman, Montana. Sanford, Florida. It’s also the number of names carved into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.…
The show was outstanding. Every performer on that stage earned the standing ovation they got. I just couldn't give them a proper one. At eighty-seven, with a potful of arthritis,…
OK. Here I am, a gawky, skinny 15-year-old walking into where he was talking, not nicely, to my mom. There he is, way bigger than me. He coulda easily killed…
I was four years old. My dad was on a gurney, on his way out the door to the hospital after a heart attack. He looked up at me and…
My freakin internet connection doesn’t work. To fix that problem my gigantic corporate internet provider sent me a new cellular modem. I had to ask what the hell that was.…
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all." That's Hamlet. And I've been thinking about it for a while now. I am lazy. Ergo, I don't read Shakespeare very thoroughly.…
Recently, I went online to book a room at a specific hotel in NYC. Clicked on "Reservation Desk." Thought I was talking to the hotel. Nope. I was on a…