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OVER TALKING? WHO DRAWS THE LINE

April 14, 2024 by

Over talking is not an illness that needs a diagnosis and a treatment. More like a habit; for some a vocation. After all, every radio personality is an over talker by definition since we can’t see their faces. Not any more. Now everyone’s on a screen, ready or not. But I’m still a radio fan. […]

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UNDERSTANDING SPORTS FOR THE NON-SPORTY

May 4, 2023 by

For starters, understanding sports, if you don’t already, and you’re past fifty years old, where have you been? But it does happen. One sign is when you hear, “Why aren’t there more touchdowns in baseball?” Or, “Do you shoot a field goal, or kick a field goal?” “Yes,” is the right answer, but first:

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FOOLED ONCE? FOOLED TWICE? WHAT’S NEXT

April 18, 2023 by

Fooled once happens to the best of us, and everyone else. Then you get fooled again and it’s different, but not for you because you might be blinded by love, money, power, then more love, more money, more power. If that’s your excuse, it’s not everyone’s. Love and power are nice, but the driver is, […]

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AL CAPONE: THE END OF BOOMER STORIES LIKE THIS

September 27, 2014 by

As Told To BoomerPDX. “…My Grandpa was a baker in Chicago, you know, bread and cakes and pastries. “One of his customers had him drive to Cicero to deliver cakes. “The customer was Al Capone. My uncles told me about it at Grandpa’s funeral. “He’d take the cakes in and the gangsters would hand them […]

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