Voices

Dear Mama... “And when it seems that I'm hopeless, you say the words that can get me back in focus.” To be perfectly honest, I love working a job that focuses only on the good in life because my mind has a tendency to pull me down. I don’t know...

I was having a hard time coming up for this introduction part for my Links of the Week and I was really having a hard time focusing on one thing enough for 300 words this week. Should I write about springtime? Kentucky Derby? Mother’s Day? I went...

I never saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. Any time I ever saw a Grateful Dead on a car, 99.9% of the time it was a Volvo, and 98% of the time the sticker was either the dancing skeletons or the dancing bears. I personally love the bears, but the...

We are here at the end of April, looking at the biggest story happening in sports. NBA Playoffs? Nope. Playoff hockey? Not even close. Is it Skip Bayless leaving ESPN? No way. It is the end of April, and we’re talking about football. Thursday...

The news came when I was on the couch, reeling from a sinus headache that had knocked me out of work for the day. My wife was home on her lunch break and she let out a guttural “Noooo!”. The news came out that Prince had died. All Thursday and...

I never appreciated Prince like I should have. I should have, skimming back through his catalog last night after the announcement of his passing, but I just never did besides loving his core hits, as everyone did. But I would like to take this...

Whattup, weather! A week ago we were crying about how April was the winter of our discontent, and now I sit here on a sunny day in a log cabin waiting for Garrison Keillor to tell me about he spent his springs in the cool, crisp air, churning butter...

On Wednesday night, the Golden State Warriors won their 73rd game of the season, breaking the Chicago Bulls’ 1995-96 season record of 72 wins. That’s insane. About 96% of basketball talk this season has been about the Warriors and whether or not...

April 7, 2016 was National Beer Day. Honestly, it’s a very historic day for a number of reasons, but you just want me to talk about beer so let’s just talk about beer. I love beer, and so do you. Maybe not you, specifically, but you as the large...

I’m a visual person. I love pictures - the pretty, interesting, unique, edgy, and beautiful pictures that tell a story and make you feel stuff; the type of pictures that make you pause when you spot them. So I went back and picked out my favorite...