Two Gents' Worth
April 26, 2025
A few weeks ago, an old friend in Paso Robles emailed me a great series of cartoons dealing with aging. He does that a lot, and those cartoons are often quite amusing – even if they hit way too close to home. The best cartoon he sent in that batch showed a woman of indeterminate…
Read More about Another Birthday, on the WayA week or so ago, I wrote about why I had gone into broadcasting. I mentioned that it was because of NBC Radio’s incredible weekend-long “Monitor” program — which I fell in love with and never got over — and because of KNBR Radio in San Francisco, the great-sounding NBC owned-and-operated station that boomed its…
Read More about My Favorite TeacherThe other day, someone asked me why I had gone into broadcasting and spent most of my career there. There are two reasons: NBC Radio’s extraordinary weekend-long program “Monitor” — and KNBR Radio in San Francisco. Soon after I started listening to “Monitor” in 1963 on KMJ Radio in Fresno, I discovered KNBR (an NBC…
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“It’s Christmas time all over the world. It’s Christmas here at home.” Sammy Davis Jr. memorably belted that out decades ago in a marvelous musical ditty about what fellow great singer Andy Williams called “the most wonderful time of the year.” If Christmas doesn’t bring out the best in us — the smiles in us…
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A few days back, a compatriot from my long-ago Fresno High days sent me a message on Facebook. She asked: “Do you guys ever stay home?” Another former FHS classroom companion commented, via Facebook: “No moss on you!” They both were responding to recent postings about Sharon and my latest sojourn, this one to Walt’s…
Read More about A Disney ThanksgivingFour months have come and gone, like a flash, since Sharon and I sold our place in Paso and moved to our temporary Airbnb here in Clovis. And now the time has almost arrived for another departure — when we head to the great Heart of the American Heartland to spend one more summer in…
Read More about That Midwest Feeling, Again
We headed to the hills, again, on this gorgeous Sunday in April. This time, our plan was to drive back into my past — way, way back. We were going to North Fork. But getting out of Clovis took a bit of time. After all, we had to stop at Target to buy some chips…
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Sharon and I drove up to Shaver Lake for lunch this Thursday afternoon. We hadn’t been there in at least 20 years, and because our Airbnb is east of Clovis and a mere 35 miles from the lake, we decided — what the heck — let’s make the trip. We took home-made chicken sandwiches, sliced…
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Do I know how to celebrate my birthday, or what? Yes, another birthday of mine showed up on the calendar today, and I’ve had quite a commemoration, indeed. Among other things — not many other things, admittedly — I got a coronavirus shot, and Sharon and I ate some Wendy’s take-out inside our car at…
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The calendar won’t confirm it, but Spring has arrived in the Valley. The signs are everywhere. Daytime temperatures have been rising, reaching the high ’60s and low ’70s. Grasses in front yards and fields have greened up. Flowers — poppies, irises, daffodils — have emerged and started showing off their colorful blooms. And then there’s…
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