Several months ago, I posted a couple of weekly entries I called "5Ws/1H." The point was that, calling on my journalism degree, I'd begin posting entries that answered the essential questions: who?, what?, when?, where?, why? and how? for that particular week. I really liked those entries, so here's another, covering the past week.

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Late night thoughts on listening to Sibelius while hangin' with Jimmy in our semi-mancave during the NCAA Championship game.I do not necessarily need a “mancave,” but if I were to have one, it would need to include my desk (currently in the basement), easy access to my record collection (currently in the family room) and a computer (which, for me ( Read more... )

At this point various friends of mine have accepted the 30 Day Music Challenge, in which they answer 30 different questions about songs through their Facebook or blog pages. I am going to give this a try as well, though I can assure you, I won't be doing this in 30 days straight ( Read more... )

One night back in 1973, my family (Dad, Mom, Lisa and me) sat in the family car in the parking lot of the Aston Arms Apartments, which is where my grandmother lived at the time. We were searching for Comet Kohoutek ( Read more... )

I have been a blogger now for ten years. With "The Decade Project," I am re-posting my favorite entries, in chronological order, one (or sometimes more) per week. Click on the "decade project" tag below to see the whole set so far.

This is an Onionesque fake news story that I originally posted on Oct. 16, 2003. Except it is about something that ( Read more... )