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Geezerhood parts 3 & 4
It’s time to retire. Not just retire, but buy some plaid pants that come up to my armpits, learn to play shufffleboard, and memorize the schedule for the Early Bird Special at every restaurant within 200 miles. At the age of 59 ½ and counting, I have officially joined the Great American Geezer Club. How… Read more
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Radio daze
It’s amazing what you can find bouncing around your PC. Just open My Pictures, and something you forgot you ever saved is right there with a year’s worth of memories. The memories brought back by this 1980 newspaper ad are fogged by disorientation and lack of sleep, because those were the days when I was… Read more
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The blues and the truth by degrees
As much as I love a good old-fashioned Sunday paper in print, the online version of today’s New York Times has a leg up on the hard copy: a multimedia version of the cover story of the Times Magazine, “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie.” It’s a fascinating account of the search for information about… Read more
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One nation?
The Second American Civil War began not with a cannonball but with a tweet. In the early morning of November 9, 2016, the defeated right-wing Republican presidential nominee* called on his followers to “Resist this socialist plague by any means necessary. Be ready to quit these ‘United States’ to build a new nation where we… Read more
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Believe in…you know
We’re not there yet. After dealing us a pair of historic storms that shut down the city for days on end, the weather gods are playing cat-and-mouse with our hopes. Monday was a t-shirt day, the temperature leaping into the 70s while the sun brightened the green of the new grass, warming both our bodies… Read more
Stories from the South and the subconscious