I have asked for (and received) Friday May 22nd as a vacation day. This will be my first vacation day of 2020. (I went to Denver for a medical appointment in January but did not do anything resembling entertainment or recreation. In fact, by going to that appointment I missed the final chance for months … Continue reading Vacation! (Of Sorts)
Are you there, God? It’s me, Wenty. That’s not exactly an original opening. I thought you were a Director Of Creative Services. Cut me some slack, almighty…uh..you. I’m not handling things very well at the moment. I’m hearing a lot of that. Of course you are! And that’s what makes me feel bad even bringing … Continue reading A Conversation With God
Larry King used to write a column for the USA Today newspaper consisting of vapid non-sequiturs such as: “That Charlene Tilton sure is a looker”…”Anybody ever wonder what happens to the airplane peanuts people don’t eat?”…”I’m calling it now: The Yankees will win the penant this year…” And so forth. So here’s a grab bag … Continue reading A Larry King “Dot Dot Dot” Column
I recall we, as the Junior class of Sherburne-Earlville Central School, had the opportunity to vote on our 1989 Junior Prom theme. All of the nominees were then-current songs (as opposed to such evergreen themes as “Starlight In The Cafeteria”, “Romance Under The Basketball Hoops”, etc). I voted for “I’ve Had The Time Of My … Continue reading From The Scrapbook: Promenade
I did a post earlier this week about my trip to a CBS morning show. The tickets I got signed are in my scrapbook. There are a lot of treasures there. Today I’d like to tell you about another one of them. In 1987, my Mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. She had been a … Continue reading A Warm Happy Place
This is the first day of “wrestling week”–not WWE wrestling, but state high school wrestling finals. It’s a busy week for all 3 of the Alliance radio musketeers, particularly for Gles who makes the trip eastward. But Kalin and I too will have some long days Thursday and Friday and (one hopes!) Saturday. So it … Continue reading Girl Scouts, Wrestling and Mortality
It’s been a while since I posted a health update. And this is not much as updates go. But on January 13th I headed to UC Denver Health, where the neuro-team said my Chiari malformation was not doing anything. Good night everybody! If you read a little irritation into this, I’m writing irritation into it. … Continue reading Health Update(ish) And More
Mike Garwood passed away December 16, 2007. We’ll start with what I wrote on my MySpace blog the very day I heard the news that Mike had died. (Photos added and captioned in 2019.) I’ll see you at the end. I received the call today, this morning, that Mike Garwood had passed away. This was not a … Continue reading Remembering Mike Garwood
This offering is divided into two parts. The first part is humorous (one hopes) stories. The second part is a little different. PART ONE: HUMOROUS (ONE HOPES) STORIES Wook Spoiler Alert. Everybody calls my brother “Chewy” because he is a hirsute fellow who can growl with the best of them. But he was a neither … Continue reading Family Christmas Stories
(Yes, the headline is Muppet-related. But it seemed a more jocular headline that “Poor Poor Pitiful Me, I Am In The Hospital”!” Yesterday was Sunday. The last day of a very abnormal weekend for your humble correspondent. Abormal not because of what I did, because of how I slept. On Friday and Saturday night, I … Continue reading And Now…Radio Klutz Hospital…The Continuing Sto-oo-ry of a Jock Who’s Gone To The Docs
