DRINKING OF ELDER MEN

When I was a lad I earned money by going about talking neighbors into letting me mow their yard or wash their car. I had those as chores a...

"Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen." - Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd" And some do i...

I'm feeling my age this week. Angry Assassin Arthritis did a hit job on my right foot. The problem with Mr. Arthritis is he doesn'...

A company named Philips has a slogan, "Sense and Simplicity". Well, good for them, I hope they do what they say, but it seems ev...

Scene from Fritz Lang's Metropolis; The Modern Frankenstein of Technology

Once upon a time The Kid decided to be a writer. The only thing available in his house when this brainstorm struck was a fountain pen and ...

In 1984 The Kid (in mid-transfer to Old Goat) bought an Apple IIc, Apples first portable or compact computer. That was what the c stood ...

So I'm sitting there in the parking lot of a mall late last evening because my wife wanted ice cream. She went into the super market t...

When I was a young man, a teenager actually, all I wanted was a typewriter and a tape recorder. I felt those were the tools a writer needed ...

Twenty -nine years ago I pretty much lost a house to the flow of water. I understand the power of water unchecked. It can take out your c...

"Yessir," says the young lady, "you are a premium Customer."       That is good to hear and what it means is ...

About 8:00 Tuesday morning the phone rings. It is a young lady telling me the technician is on his way. He arrived ten minutes later. This...