by admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Culture
When my daughter was 16, I let her go to Belgium. Looking back, I’m not quite sure why I did that. But it seemed like a great opportunity for her at the time and hey, who am I to stand in the way of adventure? But now that my son has just turned 13 and...
by admin | Jul 28, 2011 | Politics
The current deadlock in Congress over the debt ceiling and just about everything else it seems, must appear to some people to be shear lunacy. After all, can’t a bunch of grown men get along, finding ways to move forward for the good of everyone rather than...
by admin | Jul 27, 2011 | Children
My daughter’s birthday is today. My first born, she hits the big 3-0. To herald the arrival of this milestone, my ex-whatever wrote me to ask how it feels to be an old man. I thought it was supposed to be Becca’s milestone, not my own. Still, it was hard...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | School Daze
I’m still not sure why I ever got my high school diploma. But I think it had a lot to do with Kevin Kever, not Larry Harwood. The story begins innocently enough. A bunch of my friends at Hazen High School were suffering some serious seniorititis. We were...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Growing Up
Growing up on NE 28th Street, there weren’t any kids my age. I had been caught in the bottoming out of the Baby Boom generation… I was the youngest kid on the block outside of Michael Hanshew, a late addition to a Catholic family of nothing but girls. He...
by admin | Jul 21, 2011 | Life Lessons
Yes, the title of today’s RobZerrvation is a Jimmy Buffett song. And it serves today as the inspiration for a thoughtful piece on where I will be spending my golden years. Yeah, right! My son thinks he’s found it for me. We were in the car joking about how...
by admin | Jul 20, 2011 | Life Lessons
I was talking to my son yesterday about the “good old days” again. The subject was music and we got into a discussion about the music he likes vs. the kind I like. As we skipped back and forth between tracks on our respective devices – I on my iPad,...
by admin | Jul 19, 2011 | Life Lessons
I was fairly shy growing up. I know that’s hard for many of you to imagine, at least if you’ve met me as a performer/entertainer. But if you were to meet me at a party and I wasn’t wearing a pirate costume, you’d hardly notice me at all....
by admin | Jul 18, 2011 | Relationships
I wrote a few days ago about my first kiss, which was also my first real taste of beer. Well, it wasn’t exactly my first first. My father used to let me taste his beer, but I think he put the equivalent of a half a shaker of salt in it to make it taste better to...
by admin | Jul 15, 2011 | Politics
As a writer, I come across a lot of outrageous statements that are presented under the guise of fact. So yesterday, when I first saw this story, I refused to believe that anyone in this country could be so misinformed and misguided. But in light of the news today and...
