“Hello, American This is Paul Harvey! Stand byyy for newwws!” I loved to listen to the Paul Harvey show every day at noon. He’d report the news in an interesting way, and in…

A bunch of golfers and hackers recently went on our annual pilgrimage to the Sandy Pines Golf Club in DeMotte Indiana. If you’ve never played there, check out the spectacular sixth hole. It’s nothing…

As many of those who read my columns and short stories know, I’m a classic rock junkie. I can’t help myself. I’m a walking encyclopedia on rock music trivia. That…

Back in the sixties the country was turbulent. Viet Nam was wearing thin on folks. Civil disobedience, riots, mayhem, and hippies were everywhere.  Rock and roll music had become the petulant child of the…

It’s been three years since my divorce from Kevin. After twenty-one years of marriage, he said he wanted a divorce. We were sitting on the couch together watching “Law & Order.” I was playing…

But he really had to go! There I was, sitting in a dilapidated Detroit Michigan jail cell. There was blood smeared on the dirty cinder-block walls. There was also a rather large hairy…

Having finished dinner with friends at a little Italian restaurant about twenty-five miles from our home, my wife and I set off to return home. On the way, we stopped at a drive-up ice…

Nearly everyone has heard of the Beatles. In fact, it would be hard to find anyone over the age of about eight who hasn’t heard of the Fab Four – Paul, John, George, and…

Me and the Squeeze Doing the Abbey Road Walk – outside of Abbey Studios. …all the Royal BS doesn’t impress me that much, a rant for another day. The wife and I…

Greetings from cold and rainy Kirkwall, Scotland, at the northern tip of Great Britain. The wife and I are on a cruise for our wedding anniversary.  Forty-four years after pleading her to marry me,…