Someone smart but sexist once said, “if it has tits or tires, it’ll keep you broke." What can you say about someone that has had so many cars and has so many car stories? Remembering them all sparks the hope… if you could get the car back, you could get the time back and the … Continue reading CARS
In the late-Nineteen Eighties I was an aging kid working a colorful but caustic job on the seedy side of town. Specifically, I was a graphic artist in a busy studio that supplied signs for most of the independently owned grocery store chains in the Philadelphia region. We’d hand paint Flank Steak 99¢ / LB. … Continue reading AN ANALOG STORY
There are 54 cards in a deck when you count the jokers but that's not answer to life, the universe and everything.
Words to my daughter as she grows and goes...
When I wanted to be Tom Waits.
In the early 90s I wrote for and edited several lifestyle and business publications. I learned a lot in the busy, character-filled newsrooms of the suburban weeklies, like how to tell people what to do in prose…
The largest live crowd I ever spoke in front of was nearly 40,000, on August 16, 2011 and I had two goals: Be brief and be powerful.
Both men, looking out of their respective windows, smiling at their good fortune think to themselves simultaneously– anti-intellectualism is killing this world and their smiles fade.
On April 10, 2018 I planned a surprise party for our 25th wedding anniversary but a blizzard changed our plans and we headed south. Had it happened, I had a cake with our picture on it, a killer party band and a speech to deliver to the bride. This is that speech. . . . … Continue reading UNSPOKEN SPEECH
The path of an everyman, Everett Manning, destined to disappoint his angel in the usual ways.
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