Waiting in Line All our days are spent in line but standing’s not the norm, though patience’s needed there as well as those in mundane form. Crawl, stand walk and run overrunneth your cup, eat, sleep, live and love till your turn is up. Your place was granted by your Read more…
I was behind the wheel of a 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger in Lavalette New Jersey with my old friend, Joe. We were driving up and down route 35, hoping to find his girlfriend who was on vacation with her parents. He was determined to find her, so I soldiered on, Read more…
One problem with writing about something so ultra contemporary as the covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21, is the inevitable fall of the subject from timely relevance. For one who likes to write for all time, it would seem a poor choice, so I’ll do what I can to infuse something that Read more…
When I first became a serious student of Jazz, one of the things that I enjoyed doing was reading about the lives of the musicians that created it. They gave the music the breath of life, and I found descriptions of their exploits, both on and off the bandstand, to Read more…
When confronted with some of the strange practices and lifestyles that are tolerated in our modern liberal culture, I sometimes become distressed. One way of dealing with this is to indulge in the bittersweet memories of youth, and recall that some of the things that I did would never have Read more…
It was the spring of 1989. Germany was still two countries, the Clintonistas were still Arkansas bound, and ‘text’ was NOT a verb. Just about two years of my new career in Data Processing had gone by, and I was working in a testing group as an employee of AT&T. Read more…
There are a few pivotal times in a boy’s life when he feels that he has reached a milestone and is about to enter a new phase of maturation. I don’t mean the obvious ones like Bar mitzvahs or Graduations. I’m talking about the ones that are events that come Read more…
I had just agreed to pay six dollars for a brand new tire for the car that I needed to drive to work every day. The cause of this windfall was the fact that one of my car tires was continually leaking air, and could not be repaired. And, since Read more…
I’ve been advised to start writing a blog. So, I figured I’d better create some material. Hence, these words. The WORD processor at my fingertips underlined the last sentence in the above paragraph, probably because it figured that ‘Hence, these words’ wasn’t a complete sentence. I don’t care. It also Read more…