Great gratitude for great writers in his life
Sometimes I must remind myself of the “why.” Delete that … not sometimes, many times. Still self-doubting after all these years. The writer’s plague. My own private dark ages. About…
Read MoreSometimes I must remind myself of the “why.” Delete that … not sometimes, many times. Still self-doubting after all these years. The writer’s plague. My own private dark ages. About…
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, my family used to camp at Lincoln Boyhood State Park in southern Indiana. I looked forward to these excursions for one reason: Angie F, who…
“The fantastic trip” that was Jimmy Buffett For the first half of this month, I found myself immersed in all things Jimmy Buffett (JB). That tends to happen to fans…
Upon final reflection, Jimmy Buffett was my sun. For 45 years, his tropically themed music delivered to me a sunshine state of mind. My mental migration to Margaritaville is rooted…
“Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” -Henry IV Evenings,…
Let’s begin with the Foreigner fallout boys, those rock and roll purists who understandably disagreed with the positive things I wrote about my first Foreigner concert at Ruoff “I Still…
I just checked another box on my 1970s Super Group Concert List. This summer, I saw Foreigner. “Feels Like The First Time” was a cherished 8-track tape of mine in…
Her voice greeted me in the cleaning supplies aisle. “Hi, Scott,” she said, as I squatted at the bottom shelf reading Drano directions. Her voice was vaguely familiar, not enough…
Leveling at 30,000 feet after departing LaGuardia Airport, our jet was jostled. We represented nothing but a tubular chew toy in the jaws of a masticating, mythical sky beast. The…
I know what my son, Austin, was probably thinking a few years ago: it’s time to revoke the old man’s iPhone privileges. For the second time in two weeks, he…