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 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...
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...
Once upon a time, back in the olden days BC, before coronavirus, when department stores, eat-in restaurants and movie theaters were open, this used to be my favorite Sunday of...
It was the dead of winter, 1992, in Kansas. The days were short, the evenings long. Darkness hit a little after four o’clock each afternoon, when the temps dropped and...
Las Vegas, NV — This sucks. I can get by without stuff I thought I needed. I’m okay, short term, with restaurants being closed and not being able to get...