Scribbling

When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle opined, Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, they were referring to an era in our history, which to them represented a purer and more simplistic approach to life.  From the time the famed Yankee Clipper was born until he hung up [...]

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I was introduced to the Tour de France during the early years of ABC’s Wide World of Sports when it was presented as cycling’s premier event; while the Tour was not shown in its entirety WWS provided updates on the stages which had been completed prior to each weekly broadcast with special emphasis [...]

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What an eery day!  W has temporarily ceded the presidency to Dick Cheney while Bush undergoes a scan for colon cancer.  Let us hope calm prevails.  I’d rather not ponder the possibilities we’d face should a crisis escalate in a sensitive part of the world, say Iraq, North Korea, the Middle East, Iran, or even New York City.  That [...]

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Ed Hardin’s front page article on the Great Smoky Mountains in the Greensboro News and Record this morning is compelling, informative, and touchingly elegiac.  If I am completely candid, I must confess that I did not expect this sort of writing from Ed, which may be an unfair observation on my part as my only [...]

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During the run up to the Iraq war and the years that followed I listened attentively to Bush’s remarks regarding that fateful decision, which has jeopardized the well being of this country.  When I quizzed a dear friend of mine who, unfortunately is no longer with us, if he had listened to Bush’s last press [...]

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