This is a very personal blog, and for most of the people who read it, the person at the center will be unknown. However, for those of you on my "Friends and Family" list, and then for a subset with whom I went to Princeton High School in southern West Virginia, you will recognize this…
Read more
Thoughts on the Kentucky Derby
This is personal, so hopefully it will "work" for a reader who does not know me well. You do know yourself well, and for sure you will have had a similar experience or positive recollection you can plug into your walk down memory lane. Here goes with mine. The Kentucky Derby is the premium horse…
Read more
Bob Dylan CD
“The Best of Bob Dylan” CD For some time now, and I have no idea how long that is, I have had a special CD in the car: The Best of Bob Dylan. It was not inside any protective paper enclosure and has lived in a side pocket below the left armrest for years, then somehow…
Read more
Thoughts on the Funnypages: Newspaper Comic Strips
Who doesn’t read ‘em? There are 34 daily "funnies" - the archaic term I grew up with - comic strips in the Austin American Statesman. Newspapers are struggling and have cut back on news coverage, while losing the number of advertising pages. Of course, these have to be related. Yet the comic strip coverage seems…
Read more