by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | Pirate Adventures
Jimmy Buffett had warned me well with his sage advice at the beginning of “The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful.” Don’t ever start a band. I didn’t listen of course. And now I look back on being a performer for 30 years and wonder where...
by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | Defies Description
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...
by admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Culture
Time is an odd thing and yet we’re all consumed by it. Jim Croce wanted to put it into a bottle. H.G. Wells wanted to travel through it with the machine he created. Tony and Doug entered into it through a Tunnel on TV in the 1960s. And for the vast majority of...
by admin | Feb 8, 2011 | Defies Description
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...
by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Defies Description
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...
by admin | Feb 6, 2011 | Pirate Adventures
Some of you, in fact many of you, know that I am a pirate. No, not the Somali kind, but the roguish, swashbuckling kind, harkening back to the romantic era of Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks movies. When I was dating, this often took the “datee” aback....
by admin | Feb 5, 2011 | Life Lessons
I don’t know how it happened, but there seems to be a lot of old people in this world. Now, it could be that I live in a community where Snowbirds come to retire. It may skew the results some. And it could be because I’m the youngest person in the building...
by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Life Lessons
If everything goes as I’m told it will, I will be homeless by the end of the day. This is not the first time I have been homeless. I have been homeless several times in my life, all because of a love gone wrong. The first time I was homeless was because of a...
by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Randomalities
For an old guy, I’m pretty healthy. I always have been. Sure, I’ve had my share of the flu and colds. I also had the mumps, measles and chicken pox, albeit for only three days. I have been in the hospital once. And I blame it on boobs. You see, my...
by admin | Feb 2, 2011 | Defies Description
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...
