Giving Up The Ghost.

My girlfriend and I were watching Celebrity Ghost Stories last night. She wondered if any of these stories were true. I looked at her aghast, reminding her of my own experiences. I have seen ghosts. And I’ve had some pretty close encounters with them, including...

Ahead Of My Time And I Didn’t Know It

I was watching a PBS special the other day on how technology is making us less social and that we are becoming isolated drones who are being destroyed by all these advances around us. I just want to say — BULLS**T. How can I fly in the face of all these...

The File Cabinets of My Mind

I know that it may surprise no one here but I actually went to therapy once. It wasn’t for any psychological imbalance, mind you, though you probably wouldn’t be shocked to hear that either. Instead, it was for a crumbling marriage. I never thought I would...

Warning! Warning! Flashback Ahead!

A surprising note arrived yesterday from someone I knew of but didn’t really know in high school. I guess that’s not too surprising, given there were some 1,200 students at Hazen and 367 of them were in my class alone. It was a very pleasant surprise. And...

Let me see if I misunderstand you correctly…

I have spent most of my life in a state of misunderstanding. That is both a good and a bad thing. I think it’s cost me more relationships than I’d like to admit, but it has allowed me to live the life of a creative. Not sure which is good or bad, by the...

God, Please Don’t Cancel My Show

Today, I’m not waxing philosophic. Instead, it’s all about TV, heaven and what happens next. I know, pretty heady stuff. But never in my mind. The inspiration for this morning’s tome is the unexpected death of John Dye at the age of 47. If you...

A Day of Rest… and Filing

Yesterday, I didn’t seek out to be Biblical, it just turned out that way. You see, I actually made a Sunday a day of rest, as God intended. I lounged, slept, dozed, slept some more, napped, snoozed and occasionally rolled over to sleep some more. In between, I...

Music, Music, Music

As long as I can recall, I’ve been a writer. Only recently, however, did I start to remember that I was also a songwriter. No Top 10 tunes, mind you. But they have become relatively known in my small circles, except for the first song I penned when I was 12. I...