I hesitate to type this because it’s bound to not end well. Oh well. The fifth annual Sammy Sportface Booze Crooze will unravel on Whit’s banged-up boat next Saturday, July 15th at the fungus- and seaweed-laced Bethany Boat Dock. All loyal members of the Baby Boomer Brotherhood are invited even those whose lives are languishing otherwise. […]
It took me watching a whole lot of 2023 college commencement addresses lately to find one worthy of sharing with you, all the beloved members of the Baby Boomer Brotherhood. I wasn’t going to blog about just a good speech. It had to stand out, strike me as different, authentic, not repetitive, or predictable but […]
Worries whip around the world about unnecessary eating. It’s just one day before the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Word sinks in that the event, which is held July 4 in Coney Island, New York as it has been for 107 straight years, would have to go on without its charismatic and crowd-pleasing announcer […]
“So Sportface, what tune would you like to hear?” asks Arnold Bradley Fagg to Sportface while sitting around the fire pit with the fellas last night at his crib on the Chesapeake Bay. “Goodbye Girl by Squeeze,” says Sportface without a nanosecond of hesitation. Arnold then puts on a Pandora’s Box of Elvis Costello tunes […]
Evil in the World Addressing the subject of evil, Larry offers a comforting explanation for why evil exists, making this one of my favorite and most memorable insights in the book. “You could never have had the Himalayas without the unimaginable horror of a convulsion of the Earth’s crust. The Chinese craftsman who makes a […]
