I live in the suburbs, real close to Placer County, one of the richest counties in California. Downtown Sacramento is 20 miles down the highway. Until a few years ago the only time I saw homeless people was when I had chance to drive to downtown Sac. I remembering hearing Read More …
On this day, May 22 at zero-dark-thirty in 1980 in my wife’s and my bedroom, we welcomed Audrey to the world. She was damned near perfect and I say “near,” only because if I said “perfect” I would be afraid you wouldn’t really believe it. We had a midwife and Read More …
Songwriting. It’s a conundrum…or a quandary…well, one of them at least. From over here, this is what I see. Many may agree, many may not, and many don’t care, (but, regardless, I’m right, lol). Saw a post yesterday on Facebook from a songwriter and it said the instruments don’t really Read More …
Pretty hard to imagine the world without the Internet, but it hasn’t been around all that long in the whole big timeline. It hasn’t been a force for more than twenty years. But it has legacies. “You’ve Got Mail.” It was a thing for a long while in the beginning Read More …
Today is for good stories, took care of heavy yesterday. When I turned 15 I lived in Tian Mu, Taiwan, (we spelled it, Tien Mou, back then). We lived in normal American housing which was situated in the local economy. We didn’t have base housing there. So we had binjo Read More …
Thirty-five years ago this month I was a mess. I had an addiction that was killing me. I’d experienced a few months of sobriety after a stay in a local thirty-day program, but I had slid back into the morass and was speeding toward the brink. As luck would have Read More …
There was a place out of town on the old highway 90 where sporting events took place on steamy summer Friday nights. Not like football or baseball or golf. Like drag racing. The old highway was a two-laner made from concrete and it was straight for a long way. Miles Read More …
I have chanced a look at the TV guide thingy on the TV for Saturday morning cartoons. Seems to be a thing of the past, when all three major networks played cartoon after cartoon and then some serials until Saturday morning glided into afternoon baseball games. I watched the cartoons Read More …
I used to ride a motorcycle as my main transportation when I lived in Reno. I had a big Japanese street bike and I rode it pretty much year round, even rode it in snow a couple of times when I was being extra stupid. I lived out of town Read More …
My dad taught me to be a pitcher when I was little. He got me a ball glove and he got himself a catchers mitt and we spent hours throwing the baseball. I was probably about six. He taught me all about pitching, showed me how to hold the ball Read More …