by admin | Oct 19, 2015 | Randomalities
As I grow older in this land, I become both increasingly bemused and fearful of our new-found mindset. When I was young, it was all about what was good for us as a nation, our personal desires and even individual rights took a back seat to the good of the whole at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2015 | Randomalities
I have been blessed with a terrific sense of humor. I only know this because even after years of classic mishaps, boneheaded misadventures and downright disasters, I can still laugh about it all. I have never really been sure where this sense of humor came from. I...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | Randomalities
For most of my life, I’ve tried to find a moniker for me that would admirably serve as my “type.” You know the kind of types I’m talking about, a single descriptor like outdoorsy, an egghead, a worthless drunk. A few years ago, people decided...
by admin | Aug 31, 2015 | Randomalities
The weekend really blew by. Literally. As I write this, the wind is still blustering outside; the lingering remnants of a historic storm that came through on Saturday. Storms are hardly unfamiliar or unknown here. We get them regularly in the late fall and winter....
by admin | Jul 20, 2015 | Randomalities
I am not a very organized traveler. I rarely purchase a package trip, you know, where the flight, hotel and rental car are all included. I also don’t book tours, largely because they are too structured and too limiting. I did, earlier in my life. I must confess...
by admin | Jul 13, 2015 | Randomalities
One would think as they grow older that the world would become a bit clearer, that the journey to acquire knowledge would lead you somewhere where clarity was the rule rather the exception. But I admit, I am growing more confused by the day. We seem to live in an odd...
by admin | Jul 6, 2015 | Randomalities
Most people have a bucket list of places they want to see before they die. I have a list too, but true to form, it’s a list of places I have no desire to visit. Let’s start with the easy stuff. Asia. That pretty well covers it. I have absolutely no desire...
by admin | Jun 8, 2015 | Randomalities
Jimmy Buffett warned me years ago. I still remember those words from his song Morris’ Nightmare, a song that no one seems to remember except me, though largely for this piece of advice: Don’t ever start a band! I didn’t listen. I started a band, a...
by admin | Apr 6, 2015 | Randomalities
It’s been more than 30 years since I first picked up a guitar to play in a band. Mind you, it was never a goal in life. In fact, I didn’t even play the guitar at first. I actually learned banjo in college, part of the University of Washington’s...
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Randomalities
I have met a lot of famous people in my time. So many that I really can’t remember them all. I met many as a pirate, of course. That seems to go with the territory. I vaguely remember meeting Max Gail who played Detective Stan “Wojo” Wojciehowicz on...
