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Punctuality

In 1999 I wrote a children’s song which Greg Brayton and I recorded. Here are some of the lyrics. Punctuality, punctuality, That rare quality   Of being where you oughta when you oughta be. Being […]

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The Greatest

When Cassius Clay was interviewed before his first world championship boxing fight he announced to the world “I am the greatest!”.  Now, Muhammad Ali has died and all over the world reporters and news people […]

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Letter to Max

Dear Max, It’s Memorial Day and I’m thinking about Korea and about you, Max.  You and those other G.I’s they carried off on liters from that damn, beat-up powder-topped hill we called Old Baldy.  We […]

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My Music

In 1997 I went on a songwriting binge and it lasted thru 2001. When I discovered a recording studio in Coldwater, Michigan manned by a musical genius, Greg Brayton,  I managed to turn out at […]

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You’re Somebody

In 1981 we came out with my first children’s book titled The Three Robots. My goal was to teach children positive living concepts. My vision was of parents reading my books to their children while […]

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Books

For most of my life I have been a book nut. When I go to a yard sale I’m a real sucker for a stack of used books. I’ve got seven book cases in my […]

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Observation

For most of my life now I have been watching people. I remember doing it in Chicago in the mid-fifties,backed up against a building so I didn’t get knocked down and trampled. I’d be standing […]