Reading time: < 3 minutes Stephen King said something akin to write a million words and you’ll be an expert at writing. That’s a paraphrase, not a quote. I wasn’t sitting on the porch drinking a beer with him. Unfortunately. Point is, using that as a measuring stick, I’m an expert on rejection. I spend […]
Reading & viewing time: 4 minutes I referee high school basketball. Absolutely love it. The sportsmanship. The national anthem. The constant challenge. Camaraderie with fellow officials. Tossing the ball for the opening tip. It’s a great game, and I constantly find things to inform my writing. And sometimes, magic happens. Special nights, against all odds, both […]
Reading time: 3 minutes. Would you, could you name your kid Adolph Hitler? A father in New Jersey did. It came to light when a bakery refused to scrawl “Happy Birthday Adolph Hitler” on a cake a couple years ago. It turns out many states and countries have laws for naming your kid. I didn’t […]
It’s a matching game because the lucky among us are off today. (I’m not, I’m talking about y’all.) First, I give you the numbers and then a list of what they’re attached to. At the bottom, I’ll supply the answers. [Source: The White House.]
Reading time: 1 minute About a week ago (sorry, I’ve been busy with less important things) I admitted right here that I was no economist. Nor do I play one on TV. That didn’t stop me from putting forth an economic argument that cheap gas is bad for the human race in general even if […]
Are you celebrating low gas prices? Maybe you should be fearing them…
Reading time: 3 minutes Unless you’re a fan of winter, you’ll be happy to know Calvin is our dog and is not a groundhog. He’s a good dog. He’s a funny dog. But he’s not a watchdog and, thankfully, he’s not a groundhog or we’d have six extra weeks of winter every year. Below is […]
Reading time: 1 minute A financial journalist I follow said this upon the writing of his 3,000th column: “I’ve learned that journalists’ need to write far exceed the number of things that need to be written.” Me: There’s nothing important to write about today. Boss (also Me): Then don’t write anything. ’Nuff said. Also, it’s […]
Reading time: < 2 mins. We were musing about names the other day (“Why I Rob Banks,” 1-25-16), which got me thinking about character names and I made an interesting discovery. Some people are giving credit in the wrong place and I’m here to reclaim what is potentially my legacy. I wrote a Christmas story […]
Reading time: < 3 minutes I knew a guy named Willie Sutton in college. (He wisely went by Will.) I guess there are tougher names parents can saddle you with, but the list is short. Probably not many folks with the surname Hitler, and it is beyond my imagination they’d name a son Adolph. Any […]
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