Lately, I’ve been dealing with a bug invasion. All sorts of critters, like gnats that keep swirling around while I’m in the kitchen prepping my morning grapefruit to go with a cup of joe before I get serious about breakfast with some Frosty Flakes (please don’t change...
California Bloodlines is the second album by folk singer John Stewart, a former member of The Kingston Trio. That record, which was considered by many to be Stewart’s signature album, was recorded in Nashville, using some of the same musicians who performed on Bob...
Let me tell ya, this was the Mayest May in many years, ya know. Ya know why they call it May? It’s becuz it may rain, it may snow and it may be 80 degrees. It did all of that this year. Now that May is leaving and we are drifting into June, school will soon be out for...
I’ve been inspired by the recent horse races – the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness – these last couple weeks and thought about when I arrived in Crestline 50 years ago. Many people, especially teens, were riding horses everywhere in town and and there were many...
It’s that time of the year again Spring is in the air the daffydills are blumin’ and it’s once again time for spring cleaning. Since the Missus and I have been retired from teaching for eight years, she thinks I’m the one who should be keeping the Stately Motley Manor...
It’s finally May, meaning summer is almost here…I hope! Looking back to summers of the past, I remember doing some pretty wild and wooly things as a kid growing up in Tustin, which is in the O.C. between us and the Pacific Coast. When young teens, we were a bicycle...
