I was riding with a bunch of colleagues last night when the subject turned to old TV shows—specifically, The Love Boat and its memorable cast of...

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Roughly 31 years ago I wrote my first “novel,” about a mechanical Great White shark; I wonder what the inspiration might have been? Fourte...

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I’ve been reading a book about Paris during the time when writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and other expatr...

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  The beginning of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ audio series version of Jazz starts with the testimony of a gentleman who was lucky en...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on th...

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Sure, it was just a matter of time until I wrote a blog about Jim Morrison and The Doors.   I’ve spent the past few weeks immersed in an audio ...

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Tonight I started reading Donald Miller’s latest book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I’m only a few chapters in, but so far it’s about some fil...

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I went to my first Beatles concert tonight. Sort of, I guess. The Nashville area is fortunate to have a group called “The WannaBeatles” that does an ...

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