5 minutes ago, the IOC slammed Chicago to the mat with a first round elimination from the bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

We lost.

The sputtering, half baked, shoddy journalistic shreiks of "Why?" will come. America is still fighting 2 wars. We've yet to make back all the fri… Read full post »

 The Charlie Manson look alike on the right? He was my first.

The guy on the left with the happening ripped jeans---that's me. Long before kids in New York were paying top dollar for that look

When the picture was taken; it hadn't started yet.

He likes to tell the… Read full post »

He had to have been cold. Bitter cold. He was from Lubbock Texas. And there he was chartering this tiny 4 seat Beech Craft plane in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, outside of Clear… Read full post »

“And you are?  . . . . .” asked the first of what looked like many receptionists standing guard on the outer reaches of the Oval Office of President Barack Obama.

It was raining hard in Washington DC. I didn’t have a power broker raincoat, so my only… Read full post »

(Repost from October 2008) 

Malia Obama probably wasn’t sure if her Dad would make it home from work to watch her soccer game this past Friday night. 

He’s been pretty busy lately.

But her Mom and her little sister would be there.  

The flow of… Read full post »

 LONG PAST SNOWY NIGHTS

First Dream.

It’s coming. Like a train through the snow. I don’t know what it is: but it’s coming.

In the first dream, you were gone from even memories of home.  Couldn’t feel your feet crunch the snow. Just the stin… Read full post »

Her glass eye never bothered me. But killing me off with a heart attack? 

That was a problem.

This is a true love story because I was looking for true love. Or, like the previous marriage, some reasonable facsimile.

But the bright sunlight of truth fades… Read full post »

Just before the sun rose over the Lake I heard,”Roger, you better come downstairs. You've got to see this."

I figured it would… Read full post »