I am on my way to visit family in NJ. I am on my second five hour flight, the first from Kauai to LA and now this one, taking me to Newark. I swear just as I started this, we are experiencing some delightful turbulence on what has been a smooth flight until now. We’ll...
In my late twenties, I moved into a new home I couldn’t afford in Glen Cove, on the north shore of Long Island. My second son was born shortly after the move. I was working in the advertising business, with an hours long commute each way on the Long Island...
As a kid growing up in Queens, NY in the fifties, music was a huge part of my life. It had just begun to wrestle with the antiseptic sounds of Doris Day and Pat Boone and was for the first time called Rock ’n Roll. A lot of that early sound was Doo Wop, music...
Now, I want to write about something that is a guaranteed turn off, which is not a terribly bright way to encourage readership. I am one of those people, who thinks a lot and always have. I look around today at the state of human affairs and this planet of ours,...
Today, was one of the best days to ride a motorcycle on Kauai. It felt like I was being embraced by the arms of perfection. I had one terrible problem. The cheap speakers on my mobile sound system decided to crap out last week and while I wait for some high class...
