Year: 2019

A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners […]

James Brown, the old Blues singer, wrote and sang a song titled “Papa’s got a brand new bag”. I sort of associated that song with the different brands I have had in my career. For […]

Did you ever get to laughing so hard that you had to get down on the floor and get into a fetal position just to survive?  Both my musical friend Greg Brayton and I got […]

Hot has been the topic of conversation these recent days and my memory went back to 1951 when I was a G.I. at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. We were training to shoot enemy aircraft […]

Oh the stuff I find around our house when I am looking for something else. Did you ever do that.? The same is true with my computer. I spent a couple of hours the other […]

Of 1776, what was the spirit? Revolution? Freedom? Independence? No, I think the prevailing spirit Was selling Selling one another. Selling like selling Had never been done before. Or since. Salespeople saying, “But as for […]

What I bought: A precious little porcelain doll dressed in a pretty dress and seated in an aged wooden snow sled, a tiny classic car set, a little stuffed pillow saying “You’re A Very Special Neighbor” […]

Just the other day I asked myself, “What do you want to be when you grow up, Art?”  Here I am almost 90 and I still don’t have a good answer to that question. I […]