After my father passed away a couple of years ago, we were looking through some of the old photo albums my sister had found. One of the albums was a bunch of snapshots that he’d collected from when he was … Continue reading
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One of my favorite scenes in any Indiana Jones movie is the one where he gets an opportunity to pick the Holy Grail. I think it was in the third movie…Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Anyway, he’s in this … Continue reading
I’ve spent some time in courtrooms. I’ve served on a couple of juries….and I’ve watched a couple of courtroom dramas. I’ve just never been formally charged with anything. “Formally charged…” that’s kind of funny. Actually, I’ve never had any charges … Continue reading
I was reading an article about the Rolling Stones in… Rolling Stone magazine and it mentioned how Mick Jagger still mugged it up on stage. That got me thinking about Mick Jagger….which got me thinking about mugging it up…which got … Continue reading
I worked at a radio station for a while right before Jenny and I were married. We had a phrase for what happened when we weren’t paying attention ( or we ran out of song when we put “Low Spark … Continue reading
I was going to use this song in yesterday’s blog post. It was my daughter’s eighteenth birthday…and I remembered the line in the song that said “and live like a flower”. What could be more fitting than that for … Continue reading
01 Track 1 It’s 4:30 in the morning. At 5:30, I’m going to wake my wife up so she can make some blueberry muffins and decorate the kitchen. No…it’s not some perverse chauvinistic demand. I don’t make her wake up … Continue reading
Memory is a strange chain. I guess it’s strange because it never seems to be very linear. It has links that spread out to the sides, veering off into odd directions, randomly adding to the total length. Until you start … Continue reading
How did we ever get to the point of deciding which plants would be called weeds? Was it all a matter of utility? Did something get in our way one day…and suddenly, for the rest of time, it was to … Continue reading
We got new scanners at work a couple of days ago. Actually, what we got was an add-on for our old scanners. It’s a bluetooth enabled cell phone that’s only set up to communicate with the scanner. I guess it’s … Continue reading