It’s tough and tiresome getting old, but I’m going to continue to battle on
It’s hard sometimes for me to fathom when I give it serious thought, but I am only a year away…
Category: Column
Trying to explain the second or two when life for me changed just like that
I still haven’t figured out why things happen to us in unexpected ways. One second you are…
Why do people like Tennis and Putt, who seemed to have it all, do the things they do?
Why is it that some of us do things that ruin us? I was discussing with one of my…
What is wrong with us? It’s tougher and tougher to live in this world
The entire family will be here this week. It will be the first time in years all…
The good (Groucho), the bad (Hernandez), the ugly (me) all thrown in the Boneyard
I’m back in the boneyard today. It’s been a while, but things are swirling around in my mind and I…
Bobby Blue Bland, Dolphins of Hollywood, and the four amigos cruising downtown Los Angeles late at night
It was a bitterly cold day when the four amigos got in a car and drove…
Some day the top one-percenters will come tumbling down
Two things are on my crowded mine: the Snowden affair and the one-percent affair. On the first item, I…
Reaching into the past to get a man’s man team to defeat the Stark Truth team
This is the anti-response to the column my colleague and friend Chuck Stark threw down in the Kitsap Sun on…
I have enough problems (so does Assad) without thinking about the Mariners and the Seahawks
My life is spiraling out of control and I can’t stop it. It’s my age. The world is speeding up…
Summer of my Youth, Part II
I don’t know why everybody was so fascinated with the little stream up Deer Creek, but it was a big…
The beginning of the summer of my youth
This has been nagging me for 40 years. Now it’s dragging me down and I think it’s about time did…
Toughness wins, as Jordan and Bird proved, and as LeBron James proves in reverse
TELLING IT LIKE IT IS I don’t think this is unexpected news: I like tough guys. I would take tough…
Time flies, Deacon is gone, and things aren’t the same, but I’m still here
I just don’t know where the time all went. But it went pretty fast. And I was reminded of…
If it’s getting a little hot in here, it’s because of what is written below
Went to church the other Sunday and listened to a sermon on the stewardship of evangelism and became convinced…
The New York Gang did things its way, stirring up a small community with loads of laughs
The New York Gang did things its way, stirring up a small community with loads of laughs We used to…
Freedom means free, free as a bird, but there will be no shooting myself out of a cannon
I have an affinity for freedom that I believe is deeper than most. I don’t like to be tied…
Losing the dish towels is just the start of things lost
You know, you get to a certain age, and I certainly have gotten to it, and you have little patience…