Yeah, I know, we were supposed to be on hiatus. But when you are awakened from a perfectly delightful midsummer night’s slumber by a barrage of idle thoughts, you take...
It’s time for the Sunday Morning Coffee summer hiatus. Take some time off, regroup and as we old guys say, get the lead back in the pencil. But before we...
Michael Blazek loves flying first class. We all do. For Blazek, a seat in the front of the airplane means career success. Now, barring something totally unexpected, it won’t happen...
It was a Birmingham, Alabama, winter night in January 2017. Or maybe it was February. Not sure which but it was damn cold outside. The four of us were out...
If we could have made it to December, we would have been together for fifty years. But we didn’t. I’m sad but I’m also happy. I never saw the breakup...
A few assorted crumpets with your Sunday Morning Coffee: Nevada has done an above average job of managing the C-19 outbreak. To date, the state has had ‘only’ 8,350 cases...
Sergeants Bilko and Carter had nothing on her. Sgt. Bilko, the television Army boss in the mid-1950s and 60s, shouted his orders in a very rapid and high octave crescendo....
Pittsburgh Pirates fans always believed when Steve Blass left the game of baseball there would never be another one played. So far, they’re right. “I’m guessing the powers above said...
I’m by no means an airlines basher. I certainly could be, but instead I’ll leave it to the professional curmudgeons to handle for me. I’m also no airlines rube as...
We all have our share of bad days. For some of us it’s at the office. Others, at home. Or maybe on the golf course or just while we’re on...
Good morning and for some of you welcome to Wednesday Morning Coffee! We heard from many readers the past couple of days that for whatever reason the percolator didn’t work...
Two years. That’s my over/under on how long it will take for us to come out of the virus malaise. Nobody can really believe we’re going to wave a magic...