Apparently Hemingway neither said the above phrase that has been attributed to him, nor did he live it…in spite of his heavy drinking. While I probably had an adult beverage or three before I fired off the following as an e-mail at 11:55 pm on 6/7/15, I wasn’t drunk when I wrote it. And in…
first, a few pieces of background. 1. almost as far back as i can remember, but certainly since my sophomore year in high school in olathe, i have been a fairly religious reader of a daily paper. it has almost always been a morning paper. there have been some times over the years when financial…
What follows is my Christmas letter/e-mail: I hope your 2015 has been a good one. I’m keeping this to one page again this year… {one page as a word doc…with narrow margins at top, bottom and sides.} 2015 has been a bit of a “different” year for me…some good times and some not so good….
“For you, being creative isn’t just something to do. It’s an actual survival impulse.” That was Shelly’s horoscope per the local paper one day last week. That not only applies to Shelly, but also to her oldest grand-child. Eight year old Casedy accompanied us to the Wichita suburbs over the weekend as we visited Shelly’s…
Well, that was lots of fun. NOT. I just spent 2 hours and 25 minutes trying to get tickets to see Adele in either Chicago or Denver. She’s playing 3 nights in the Windy City, so i had three tabs open…one for each night. I didn’t even get a countdown like with Springsteen last week….
Shelly called it. Someone was dead!! I never expected to live in Missouri, or in an apartment, again. All that changed in 2011. There are lots of things to like about apartment living…i don’t have to mow grass, I just pick up the phone if something is broken or isn’t working, there is coffee and…
Over the past 50 years I have seen lots of live music, in lots of different venues. Smokey bars; baseball parks; 1,500 seat auditoriums with great acoustics; Chuck Berry’s farm; House of Blues in Chicago; The Fabulous Fox and The Schnitzer….and lots of others. Many venues remain on my bucket list…places I want to see…
Here’s the background to the following: a few e-mails in a thread preceded the e-mail below, starting with some Facebook status posts by Andy Borowitz pasted into my originating message….sent to my friend to give her some laughs as she recuperates. Primary topic of the thread: terrorism….foreign and domestic, her health, my health. Auxiliary topics:…
Note: This Document is rated MA (L) and is intended for mature audiences only; it may include coarse or crude language. -=-=-=- When I finally decided to “put myself out there” via this blog, I had to decide on a Title and a tagline. I chose “Things happen” for a Title and “I can’t think…
I have mastered the art of procrastination. I have been practicing the art itself for most of my life. This piece is a prime example of my level of mastery: writing a blog has been on my to-do list ever since I heard the word “weblog” in the late 90’s. When you couple my expertise…