My guest writer today is my long time friend Tommy Nielsen. Besides being one of my fishing partners,Tommy is a great fellow to be around, always cheerful, helpful, and kind…with a great sense of humor. Tommy is a Veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines, a proud member of Kenosha’s Navy Club Ship 40, The […]

                  I’ve had the opportunity to see many live musical performances. Of all the ones I’ve seen, there are several that I’ve probably enjoyed the most.   There was an old rock and roll revival band called Sha Na Na, which I enjoyed seeing. They really livened […]

                    The old octopus       Back in the day, our cape cod home on the south side of Kenosha, was heated by a coal furnace. My dad, ever frugal, was one of the last holdouts in the area to convert to oil or natural […]

  There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both on a bicycle! ― Mehmet Murat ildan     When I was a kid in Kenosha, Wisconsin, our bicycles were our life lines to the world. From the age of eight, and on into high school we depended […]

  My last article, “The Pigeon Guru” got quite a response, so I thought I’d put together another article about our feathered friends while I’m on a roll. This next article will deal with an issue that’s been vexing me for quite some time; that is just who is in charge of naming these dang […]

  One of the fads in our old neighborhood back in the day, was raising pigeons. At least seven kids on our block in Kenosha, Wisconsin raised homing pigeons, some for several years.   I got into the craze early, purchasing a small pigeon coop and two Tumbler pigeons. Tumblers were pigeons that would fly […]

  Reports of recent gas shortages and images of filling station lines remind me of a time in the seventies, when gas shortages occurred on a regular basis, thanks to OPEC strangleholds. One of the popular devices of the time, helped us locate gas, on occasion. We also had a lot of fun with it. […]

  In the next month or two I’ll have another book out titled On War, Fishing & Philosophy. In another collaborative effort with Red Engine Press, we’ve put together what we consider to be a “cocktail table book.”   The book contains some of my most popular blog articles, including many relating to war and […]

          Of all the events we’ve lost as a result of the Covid pandemic, I believe I miss those classic car shows the most. Normally, every spring through fall, memorable old buggies of one kind or another show up in numbers in many of our city and county parks.   Chevy […]

  I’ve been writing a story every week for StoryWorth this year. I was gifted a StoryWorth account at Christmas time and have been posting one story a week in it. At the end of one year, I will have a book put together containing all the stories. How life has changed since I was […]