In the past few years, mainly since I have retired, I’ve felt myself sucked into the world of jazz. Oh, I’ve always been mildly attracted to it, mainly from the more jazzy side of rock music. Bands like Steely Dan have a pseudo jazzy feel, but I have since found…

How do others perceive me? I would probably never go so far as to say “Tell me what you really think” due to the fear that they might actually do so. …

Truth be told, I am not a crook. My brief encounter with crookedness occurred when I was about eight years old. Thankfully, the benevolent powers that be did not send me off to reform school for my heinous crime. On the corner of Crescendoe Road and Perry Street, there was…

As I enter my sixth decade of life, I begin to wonder about my legacy. We probably all do a bit of this as we see our friends and classmates pass into the great beyond. Some even write their own obituary in hopes that they will be remembered in a…

Being an old retired guy with lots of friends and family that seem to be increasingly confused by technological, political, and societal change, I have begun to wonder. What do I wonder about? How will they all survive after I am gone. I know it seems like nonsense, since obviously…

We had little understanding of the challenges we would face in circumnavigating our home town in the vessel that we had assembled. Vaughn’s Creek was a well known entity wherein we had fished, swam, and even attempted to jump a 3 speed Schwinn stingray bicycle over the majestic waters. Little…

Now I do want to say that the names have been obfuscated by nicknames, for the protection of their privacy. My brother was a great bestower of nicknames and did indeed assign himself the moniker of “The Great Luigi” as well as the nickname of “Melvin Purvis” to our neighborhood…

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. Trenton Lee Stewart My fondest and most cherished memories are firmly planted in early childhood during the late 1960’s. Our neighborhood was filled with kids that were around the same age, attended the same…

Didja ever think we would end up here? We now exist in an age where cellphones are such an omnipresent device, that those of us in the developed world cannot survive without them. We use them for texting, email, web browsing, Google searching, navigation in our cars, betting, and just…