Nonfiction

The Funnies

The Comics section of the newspaper (or The Funnies) is the lighter side of the news and worth the time to peruse. Someone once said to me that The Family…

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Shortcuts

When we were kids, we had built-in Global Positioning Systems in our young, forming brains. Ofttimes on bicycles but mostly on foot, we instinctively knew how to get from Point…

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An Aha Moment

It came upon me as slow as a snail and then suddenly hit me faster than a high-speed freight train. And a runaway one at that. Why did it take…

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What’s In A Number?

The mention of a certain number may bring to mind a definitive, universal meaning. Why? Numbers are just integers. They are used for counting whatever one needs to count. It’s…

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Old Guard Emeritus

Moorman, Joseph Cornelius Black lives matter? You bet!! And the life of this man, Joe Moorman, sure did! The tributes on Facebook are pouring in after he recently died at…

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Sinatra’s Pre-Show Setup

Dressing room requirements for musicians must be quite the production in and of themselves. Besides friends. family, and the usual entourage in attendance before concerts, musicians and their bands must…

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