When I’m 64? Now that I’m 64? Can we go back to Europa yet?
If memory serves, we sang snippets of this song by The Beatles in swing choir during high school. I never really imagined it would...
Two negatives seldom equal a positive, but enough of toxic fortune cookies
Yesterday I undertook to facilitate resolution of a few matters that have proven vexing, and while I'm usually not much for statements like the...
Roger G. Baylor (1925 – 2001)
An updated and expanded version of this post can be found here:
https://www.rogerbaylor.com/2025/03/07/the-centenary-of-my-fathers-birth-is-today-march-7-1925-2025/
Roger George Baylor was born in 1925 and died on July 18, 2001,...
R.I.P. Ralph Griggs … it is belated, but no less heartfelt
Originally published at NA Confidential on October 8, 2015.
And then you get sidetracked — and feel like crying.
30-odd years ago, when I was working...
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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I've kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...
Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air...
Back on October 27, 2019 at NA Confidential, I undertook to explain a reference I'd previously made to New Albany as the Open Air...
Diary: Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to rewrite his heinous narrative
I’ve been thinking about Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach and convicted serial child molester. Sandusky is in prison, and his earliest...
Diary: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends
Title credit courtesy of Shakespeare (Coriolanus).
During The Edge’s and Bono’s recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, Bono introduced the U2 song "Stuck in a...
Diary: Brief reflections on professionalism, perception, arrogance and respect
“Professionalism” probably means different things to different people. The Internet yields this checklist, which I find reasonably accurate:
“The eight core characteristics of professionalism are:...
Coffey vs. Dickey in the 2nd? Slice me off a piece of THAT
Told you so.
The Green Mouse reports that Dan Coffey—for decades a Democrat, then an independent, and now a Republican (somewhere a Falangist has lost...
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A 2015 column encore: “There’s an indie twist to this curmudgeon’s annual Harvest Homecoming...
When Harvest Homecoming rolled around in 2015, I was:
Running for mayor as an independent, and learning all about the credits and debits of...
Diary: Sweet agony of fuddy-duddy, but our spaceship was wonderful
Diana often reminds me that my cultural references tend toward the time of World War II, as opposed to Trump's debacle with Iran.
Once in...
40 Years in Beer: It’s time for another breather. See you in a bit
For me, the biggest impediment to writing is putting the first word into the machine, knowing how much it's going to hurt before I'm...
