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DAD DEGREES LIKE COLLEGE DEGREE, BUT GRADED BY WIFE

July 8, 2020 by

Dad degrees? If you’re never heard of one, it’s because they don’t exist. Or do they? Don’t we grade parents like we do anything else? Start with the parents from childhood, your childhood, not your kid’s. I’ll go first.

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A BIRTHDAY, VE DAY, FLYOVER PORTLAND DAY

May 9, 2020 by

My dad’s birthday is May 8, so it was a big day before I learned about Victory in Europe, or anything in Europe. It’s still a big day. Sharing his day with the end of the worst war in the history of mankind, where industrialized death became the accepted norm, can’t be easy. Just ask […]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL

March 17, 2017 by

    Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]

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RODDY PIPER, BOOMER DAD

August 1, 2015 by

You Meet People In The Gym, People Like Roddy Piper If you’re not in the celebrity stalking business, where do you meet them? You really don’t. Roddy Piper was a gym rat at 24 Hour Fitness, working the cables and staying fit. I met his son in the sauna, sweating it our before one of […]

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REJECTING THE MODERN MARKET, A BOOMER TRIUMPH

August 4, 2014 by

Feeling The Weight Of Years Everywhere. A fifty year old has earned the right to a few groans and moans in the morning. When a sixty eight year old takes a knee during a softball game, don’t be surprised. These are the boomer years my friends, with birthdays between 1946 and 1964. While we celebrate […]

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