His 2023 arts highlights
Despite trying to attain the best possible return on investment regarding a ridiculous number of streaming services that I pay for, I somehow managed to actually open a few books…
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New book, “Quietly Making Noise,” meant to make you laugh out loud
As alluded to in a previous column, I just published a new collection of humor columns, Quietly Making Noise, which is now available to purchase on Amazon. Here is a…
All he wanted for Xmas was no two front teeth
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?” – Charles Dickens My father used to say, “The more keys a man has, the more worries.” Then, for emphasis, he’d…
The sound of one arm flapping
Just in time for your holiday gift shopping consideration, I have a new collection of humor columns soon available on Amazon. The collection, Quietly Making Noise, includes 68 stories that…
Random act of drive-thru Parrot Head kindness
Today, I turned 59. I don’t expect too much from 59 other than being subjected to a lengthier list of physical ailments. Fifty-eight proved to be a major pain in…
She survived a suicide bomber in Fallujah. Three other female warriors didn’t.
It was one of the most devastating incidents in the history of women serving in the military. I am a stranger to war, but four brave Americans related to me…
1988: catfishing with The King
In the late 1980s, when I was a cub reporter fresh out of J-School in southern Indiana, a wave of Elvis Presley sightings was reported in the U.S., a disturbing…
Halloween means streaming, screaming & “daring the nightmare”
I love late October, the scary time of the year, when a good horror movie casts the heaviest of shadows over the mind and spreads the iciest of chills within…
Just blow it: ill-fated bPhone and PARKR app
How I Broke This, Episode 4: Blow Phone & PARKR COLD OPEN V.O.: “You are receiving an automated voice call from an inmate at Buzzard Roost White Collar Penal Colony…
Recalling the times of a tangled-up parent
My creative touchstone and good friend Jen Chapin will be in Hamilton County this Friday to perform during the “Harry Chapin at 80” retrospective concert at the Palladium in Carmel….