Year: 2019

I was cleaning out a drawer upstairs in my music room when I came upon two boxes of Swan Safety Pins. ½ Great Gross in each box. They were manufactured in Shanghai, China.  Two boxes, […]

Some people I know collect postage stamps. Others collect rare coins.  Baseball players cards were popular when I was a kid and you got them in bubble gum  package. Me?  I collect eagles. Just swivlin’ […]

The lady who proof reads this newsletter just might go crazy with this article. If you can read the following, you have a strange mind, like mine. Only 55 people out of 100 can. I […]

I have been sitting here this morning asking myself why I have done some things in my lifetime?  “Why did I write songs?, for instance.  I started examining a booklet I have put together titled […]

Having a mind that takes you down the main road can be a burden, especially when you share your thinking in the role of the class clown.  Seinfield, Robin Williams and George Carlin all shared […]

It was 58 years ago this coming Wednesday that I snuck up the three flights of stairs to that meeting room at 55 1/2 East Michigan Avenue in Battle Creek, Michigan. A fellow was making […]

I recently found an old newspaper clipping dated February 4, 1969 which is just fifty years ago today.  It was a story about an exercise class at the YMCA and the photo in the Battle […]

With the new Mary Poppins playing in a nearby theatre my memory kicked in on one of my favorite memories. It was the day that I sang the song, “Just a spoon full of sugar”  […]