Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle, Raconteur A little over a dozen years ago, Wally Baade struck up a conversation with Hank Brown at the Starbucks on 100th street in Lakewood. The two men sat down together with their hot tasty beverages and continued conversing. The rest is history as this two person conversation blossomed […]
To Ponder
Letter: You’ll Find This Blog for a Yule Log – Odd
By David Anderson The Nativity in a fireplace but not on an Air Force Base. CBN News is reporting this morning about an Indiana couple who were stocking up on firewood and in one of the logs “found what they say appears to be images of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus in the wood.” “The […]
Letter: Warning – Water Ahead, and other “Winter Wonderland” Washouts
By David Anderson Caution: the following has been judged inappropriate for children. It always seemed ironical, if not comical, that the sign warning of water ahead was placed near the water’s edge not to mention at the bottom of a steep hill. In other words by the time you read it probably it was too […]
Letter: Why Men Don’t Do Shopping
By David Anderson A Grinch-like guy’s guide to grappling with the most grueling of all holiday anathemas: shopping. Don’t.
Westside Story – Dropping A Dime
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle This past September I rented a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car and drove up and down the East Coast between Washington D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts. In the eastern United States they have lots of toll roads managed by a governmental agency commonly called the Toll Authority. Some goofy politician or […]
Letter: It’s the Hap- Happiest Season of All
By David Anderson With apologies to Andy Williams. “In Las Vegas, a customer who had purchased a big-screen television at Target was shot in the leg while walking to a nearby apartment complex, KLAS-TV reported.” In Las Vegas, of all places.
Letter: Have You Seen My Car Keys?
By David Anderson What a four-legged unstressed mouse and a two-legged human on marijuana have to do with memory loss. “The human brain has roughly 100 billion neurons (basic building blocks of the nervous system) and can store about 2.5 petabytes of information.” So why can’t we remember where we put the car keys, kids, (fill in […]
Letter: Thanks for the Memories
By David Anderson Fifty years ago I was laughed off the stage. But this time was different. Woodbrook Middle School celebrated its 50th Anniversary this last week and I was invited to play my accordion like I’d done a half-century ago.
Westside Story – Word Selection
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle My, oh my. My Starbucks friend, Sandy Mazzei, and my friend Mary Hammond both do a nice job pointing out my word selection errors in the articles I write for The Suburban Times. I will be quick to add that I appreciate their comments. I love writing. In fact […]