Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
This week back in Fresno — several months after we moved to the Central Coast in retirement — has been busy, indeed. Some of what made it hectic were great get-back-togethers with old friends Al and Bud. Al is one of the people I’ve known longest. We go way back to Hamilton Junior High days…
Read More about Old Gents, Still GabbingMy buddy Bud and I got together yesterday at a Starbucks in northeast Fresno. Bud is the “other guy” whose picture you see on this blog. He and I had not seen each other for a couple of months, since my wife and I pulled up stakes in Fresno and moved to our retirement home…
Read More about Two Old Guys, TalkingIt’s no small thing, leaving the place where you were born and lived for half a century — even if your “new” place is only a bit more than 100 miles from your “old” one. You leave many things behind — including friends and a sense of pride that you had played a part in…
Read More about Living in a New PlaceLet me tell you a story. The first time I moved away from Fresno was around Valentine’s Day in 1973. I piloted my hotshot blue ’71 Ford Pinto up Highway 99 to Sacramento – then motored east on I-80 and over the snow-capped Donner Summit into Reno. I headed north on the 395 and –…
Read More about Farewell, FresnoI spent nearly four decades in broadcast journalism – both TV and radio. Right after I graduated from Fresno State, I moved to Susanville to become a radio news director and then – nearly bankrupt, since radio paid no money – made my way back to Fresno and somehow became the youngest TV reporter in…
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The other day, I read a newspaper story about the great Vin Scully, who is enjoying Year One in retirement after 67 years — 67! — as the Voice of the Dodgers — and who is universally recognized as the greatest baseball announcer ever. With the Boys in Blue heading for another playoff run, a…
Read More about Once Upon a Time
Please permit me a random thought or two on another gorgeous Sunday night in the heart of our great American heartland. For starters, one of the joys of living — even temporarily, as I am now — in a really smart town is that you don’t encounter a whole lot of stupid talk. And that…
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Things are different here in the Midwest, and those differences are almost all good. Yes, I’m back once again in the heart of the great American heartland — Ames, Iowa. I’m spending a few weeks hanging out with old friends, eating a ton of that great Midwestern beef at the best barbecue spot anywhere (Hickory…
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How nice it was to see the once-mighty Fresno Bee just confirm what we reported here months ago — and what has been obvious to anyone who cared to walk what’s left of the Fulton Mall — that the project to re-open Fulton Street is, indeed, far behind schedule. There’s no crime in that —…
Read More about Bye, Bye, Fulton Mall!