by Michael B. Wright
April showers bring May flowers, but that’s not what comes to mind when I think of April. I think of “April Love.” (Not the emotion or the experience, but the song by Pat Boone.)
Growing up in the 50s when “rock ’n’ roll” was coming...
By Michael Wright
Towards the end of last year, many a red-blooded male octogenarian felt a tinge of nostalgic heartbreak with the passing of Brigitte Bardot. In my youth, I was as Brigitte-Bardot-obsessed as Billy Mumy was in the movie “Dear Brigitte” (and...
by Michael B. Wright
Well, we've taken another tour around the sun. New Years Eve is over now, as are the requisite hangovers, which should all have been gotten over by now. I’ve long since stopped allowing such festivities, as well as Peter...
by Michael B. Wright Christmas decorations have been filling store shelves for more than two months now, which is an early sign that the two-edged time of the year is fast approaching; a time filled with both eagerness and dread simultaneously....
By Michael B. Wright
It’s November and hopefully as of this writing, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Why? Because the month is almost over and we are not in the throes nor the aftermath of a hurricane. Fingers...
By Michael Wright
“The Horror! The Horror!” - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando, "Apocalypse Now")
I am currently re-reading Stephen King’s “On Writing.” As I do, I again realize how much he and I had in common as kids growing...
By Michael B. Wright
All of us encounter various kinds of gaps in our lives in addition to the clothing store chain of the same name.
There are “generation gaps” like The Gap Band and Cumberland Gap in the Appalachians....
by Bonnie & Phil Parker
"It will get done... eventually."
How many of you as you read this are impacted by facing decisions that one would label “procrastination?” You know the expression: “Why put off to tomorrow what you can do...
By Michael B. Wright
I can only think of three specific holidays that take place in August for which I am fully qualified: International Left-Handers Day on August 13, National Relaxation Day on August 15, and National Senior Citizens Day...
by Michael B. Wright There are some people who like to pick off scabs. They pick not only their own, but also those of their friends and relatives. I know some of these people intimately.
I, however, come from the “don’t pick...
