Candlesticks in the Sink
I loved my Bubbe.* I was probably around 9-years old when she moved from Traverse City, Michigan, to our hometown, Cleveland, after she broke her leg and couldn't get around…
Yellin’
Screenshot I was watching Steven Colbert the other night. It might have been a rerun but he interviewed former Treasury Secretary (Biden administration) Janet Yellon. She charmed him—and me. So…
Good things come in small packages
The Talmud teaches that the sanctity of the post-worship meal merits promising judgment in the next world. I was sitting at a 6-foot round with some of the older synagogue members. Comfortably conversing with my…
Picking up his cigarette from a black plastic ashtray . . .
. . . Edgar* took a dramatic drag and exhale. Pulling at his 14-carat gold cuff-linked sleeves, The Palomino Club’s$ head bartender waited for me to slink away, shamed. We ended…
Dining with Randy Travis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE He just seemed sad to me. A few times we dined with Randy and his first wife (and manager), Lib Hatcher. I don't have any memory of where. Usually…
Antiquing with Dwight Yoakam
Driving home from grocery shopping, this weekend, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (1993) came on my Sirius station. I'm a thousand miles from nowhereI've got bruises on my memoryI've got…
Meet Candye
Candye Kane, an ex-stripper/part-time phone-sex operator turned country music and blues queen, had a fifty-four-inch bustline, a heart as big and warm as the San Fernando Valley, and a smile…
Kevin Bacon discovered it ‘sucked’
Dan Heching, CNN As the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" suggests, actor Kevin bacon is pretty famous, and has been for a long time. He discussed his longtime status as a highly…
This is a fun one: listen!
I have satellite in my car. Sometimes I hear harmonies that make me want to cry. Crosby, Stills, & Nash Simon & Garfunkel Toto Pure Prairie League The Eagles I'm afraid…