This is some thing I’ve known about myself for years, but have never admitted to. Even though I am in the radio broadcasting business, I don’t like the sound of my voice. At one point in my life, I had a difficult time speaking because I studdered. And even though I had this problem, I…

When I got home this morning from the radio station, I went to bed feeling bummed. This came after Kyle told me he isn’t going to be back here to the house until July. First he has summer school, which I knew about, but then he told me he has plans to help his grandparents…

Kyle was seven or perhaps eight months old when his pediatrician, Dr. Kathleen Christopherson, noted he was iron-deficient. She prescribed a supplement that would build up this lack in his tiny body. Unfortunately, Kyle’s mother forgot to tell me that she had taken him to see Dr. Christopherson or that Kyle had this problem. Instead…

We stopped to have lunch as we made our way to South Dakota for a family reunion on the bride’s side. Being at this particular rest stop and being an amateur historian on the West, I couldn’t wait to hike up to the top of the massive rock setting in the middle of Wyoming. As…

Today started out great, but I let my attitude steal away my joy. Jus’ great! Had to go pick up some product for my wife’s sandwich shops and that’s where things took a turn downward. I pulled into will call parking, went inside to complete my paperwork and when I came out I watched another…

When I worked as Road Supervisor for ATC/CitiLift there was a guy, named Kirk Wingo, who set my nerves on edge. He tried to act as if he were a “smooth operator,” but I could tell he was slightly off the mark when it came to being honest. While I didn’t hire him, I did…

Over the years I felt it necessary to come to the defense of Pat Patapoff’s memory. To be upfront, Pat and I didn’t always get along as we constantly had some sort of personality conflict going on between us. It was during omy 20th class reunion celebrating graduation from high school in 1978, that I…

A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Barack Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House. “It was preposterous to the people I knew then to think Obama…

Desperate to get back into radio, I answered an ad in the Times-Standard for KERG in southern Humboldt. The voice on the other end of the telephone instructed me to come to the station right away. Once at the station I sat down with a short, balding man named Jerry. He was heavy-set with a…

One early morning my brother was slashed so badly one of his kidneys nearly fell out of his body. It’s an event I’ll never forget. What I had forgotten though is what led up to this event and caused an ex-girlfriend to hate me with a passion. I didn’t know why she felt like she…