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I went to my local beer and wine distributor last weekend. I had hoped to get a few six-packs of summer ale. Last year around this time they were looking to unload it and what would have normally cost me … Continue reading →

Remember when you used to listen to albums? Or LPs? You’d put the first side on and maybe you would put two or three more albums on the spindle and when all four Side A’s had played you’d flip them … Continue reading →

Fifty years ago today the third day of The Aquarian Exposition of Peace And Music, what we’ve all come to know and love as Woodstock, was to boast a lineup of Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and The … Continue reading →

Nineteen years ago today, I was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, CLL. I had just returned from a week’s vacation. The next to the last day of my vacation, August 10th, I had a physical. There was nothing wrong with … Continue reading →

I am sixty-nine, so maybe I am old, but to a seventy-year-old man, I’m still a kid. And maybe I have been known to pass gas or break wind as they say but who doesn’t? Nevertheless, this sixty-nine-year old who … Continue reading →

Certainly, being retired and living in Florida, I do have my lazy and hazy days. Given the fact that summer lasts fourteen months a year, I often do get crazy. However, the lazy, hazy, and crazy days which I am … Continue reading →

Today, Mariano Rivera will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is fitting that Mo will be enshrined in the Hall the weekend America is remembering and celebrating the triumph of Apollo 11. You see, more men have … Continue reading →

The British Open is being held in Northern Ireland. Not too many years ago, this would have been unthinkable. Nothing to do with golf of course. Because of the sectarian violence that has scarred much of recent Irish history, it … Continue reading →

Fifty years ago today, the United States launched Apollo 11. A few days later Neil Armstrong would utter those famous words ” (for which he would, no doubt, be railroaded today), “That’s one small step for (a?) man, one giant … Continue reading →

Is that the best Trump could come up with? I mean he could as well have said. “Fuck you and the horse you came in on.” I am not sure what the statute of limitations is for “going back to … Continue reading →