Life is apt to throw you curve balls when you least expect it. And, as I am behind the count, I’m just gonna? try and make a connection. Try for a basehit, versus a homerun. Dear Wife Jen tries to make me smile in many ways. One, is by sending cute e-mails. Here’s one she […]
Holy I-Got-A-Blister-On-Me-Bum, Batman! Letters and emails keep coming in about bicyclists and their rights . . . I should have known better than to try and buck the Spandex Revolution, yet something had to be said. Whilst I cannot spend any more print space on the matter I waster cyber space. So, here are some […]
Before we get to the column, if you click onto this website, http://www.moviemole.com/jillsshow-1/interviews/don/index.html * * * Once upon a time I was content to merely moan and groan about the ever-increasing cost of gasoline. ‘Oh woe is me!? ‘Dang those evil profiteers!? It is easy to write about the rising costs of anything. It is […]
While Don is vacation we are running this, ‘Best of Column,? first published in September of 2002. * * * It’s been well over a week since the phone gods brought down their reign of terror over us mortals. We, of flesh and blood and bone, who have had the unfortunate destiny to live in […]
Once upon a time I was content to merely moan and groan about the ever-increasing cost of gasoline. ‘Oh woe is me!? ‘Dang those evil profiteers!? It is easy to write about the rising costs of anything. It is even easier to point a finger and blame said rising cost on a particular person or […]
Call me kooky, but I am either just really cynical or I’m stupid and have blown countless opportunities to make millions. Since I don’t believe I’m a cynical old fart, I must be stupid. At this very moment, if only I had acted, my family could have been set for life. We could be living […]
Before we get to the column, if you click onto this website, http://www.moviemole.com/jillsshow-1/interviews/don/index.html * * * The more things change, so the saying goes, the more they stay the same. And, these days, gol-durned-it, things are changing all around us. There are tea parties, coffee parties, spandex parties and parties where women go to buy […]
So, I finally started reading the book, A Walk In The Woods, by Bill Bryson. Folks have been after me to read it for years . . . well, since 1998 when it was first published. The book is about Bryson’s (a travel writer) trek along the 2,000-some-odd miles of the Appalachian Trail. I like […]
You probably don’t know Glenn Dill. That is unfortunate for you because you haven’t a chance to make his acquaintance any more. Some would say he has met his maker. Others will say he’s reunited with the love of his life, wife Dorothy. I’ll say it this way: glenn Dill died September 19, 2003, at […]
When I was a wee bit younger than I am now, I used to shake my head with sadness or shake my fists in anger — I used to get upset at the sheer volume of signs screwing up our roadsides. When I was too young to drive, back before seat belts were mandatory and […]