Making the flipside a chart topper

Making the flipside a chart topper

This may show your age, but who remembers 45’s? Those cute, 7” records with one song on each side? Who had a sizable collection of these ‘modern’ recordings? (still has?) If so. You likely remember every Side A, but do you remember any of the songs on Side B? Poor...
The stories are all true!

The stories are all true!

The much-told story, as I remember it, goes like this: an employee made a mistake which cost the company $10,000.00. When this was related to one of the VPs of the company, he immediately responded that that employee was surely terminated. The response from the...
Who wants to be free?

Who wants to be free?

Freedom is sweetest to those who’ve known some type of confinement. All across northern France, for example, countless towns and villages have streets re-named with the date of their liberation by Allied Forces in WWII (i.e. Rue du 22 novembre, Mulhouse, Alsace). Such...
Power, Power, Wondering-working Power

Power, Power, Wondering-working Power

When I was around eleven years old, my brothers, six and years older than I, decided they would teach me how to drive. Off we went in my eldest brother’s 1958 Pontiac. When we got  far enough out in the countryside, they deemed it time for my first lesson. They...