Waiting for John Case to pick me up…
This is my 9th and, hopefully, last day without a car. John’s picking me up to get to the 7 AM warmup for our Friday morning show on WSHC. According to the Honda dealer, my new Fit should be ready to...
View ArticleA Death in the Family
I started to work on the blog a couple of hours earlier than the first post went up… that’s because my daughter Cassandra called me from Connecticut to tell me that Penny, my daughter in nearby...
View ArticleSaturday Morning and I’m getting ready for my radio show…
“Talk To Me” is on WSHC FM from 11 Am to 1 PM today and I’m getting my music list and discussion topics ready for the broadcast. If you are outside of our local area (we’re a very small university...
View ArticleOver at WSHC putting my morning show together…
Elliot Simon … and listening to Elliot Simon who is on right now spewing his libertarian blather to anyone listening. I’m tuning him out of my head while I write this. Right now I’m selecting the Bob...
View ArticleMy congratulations to Peter Corum…
I received the most awesome gift yesterday for my birthday, from the (local) government – Approval for our Conditional Use Permit to build Morgan’s Grove Market – An Agricultural Campus and Health...
View ArticleSo, it looks like we’ve sold our Town House…
Three months after moving over here to rural Harper’s Ferry, we have just signed the agreement to sell our Shepherdstown town house…not for as much as we wanted, but for enough to move forward in our...
View ArticleBack to the Radio…
I just got into the WSHC (89.7) studio and I’m setting up for my 11 – 1 show. Given the Shepherdstown Street festival combined with the number of trees that came down in the storm last night, getting...
View ArticleOur Second Night of CATF…
Last night we saw two plays at the Contemporary American Theater Festival… and I have to have seen all five by Sunday so I can get my WSHC reviews in by Monday. Our friends Linda and Cecil are up from...
View ArticleThe sadness of a runaway dog… And his recovery.
Three evenings ago our smaller dog, Byron, pushed his way out of the front door as he regularly tries (and sometimes succeeds) to do. Usually he returns in about an hour wanting water and to get on a...
View ArticleBack on the blog…but this will be slow.
Saturday, in the early afternoon having returned home after my WSHC show, I had a seizure walking up the basement stairs from the laundry. The next time I knew anything, I was being rolled into an MRI...
View ArticleMy son is now a married man and I am a tired old fat guy…
Morning after… I’m sitting in the lounge at the Milwaukee Hilton catching up on e-mail and my blog while my wife and my daughters go over to Buddy’s house (or should I say Will’s? No, I can’t get...
View ArticleA personal note – I’m living in considerable fear…
Yesterday I had another seizure like the dozen or so I’ve had in the past three years. As I mentioned at the time of the accident 4 weeks ago that left me with broken ribs and shoulder blade and...
View ArticleFinding something to do to keep from going mad!
I’ve had a bad day today… physically tripped up by a small seizure while I was doing dishes and an afternoon of trying to stay awake. This is, unfortunately, what life has become… I can’t drive (by...
View ArticleI’VE GOT THE MORNING RADIO SHOW ALONE…
John is away this morning so I have to do the Winners & Losers show alone from 7:30 to 9 on WSHC (89.7 FM). To listen on line live from anywhere go to http://897wshc.org. Elly, of course, is upset...
View ArticleBusy weekend for me.
This is a busy weekend as Elly and her Sustainable Shepherdstown group are The Goddess of House Cleaning having a pot luck supper at our house and we have to do a lot of cleaning today and tomorrow...
View ArticleToday is our 34th Anniversary…
Elly dances with Buddy at his wedding reception. Hard to believe it, but Elly and I have been married for 34 years as of today. It’s almost unbelievable that this wonderful woman has out up with me so...
View ArticleJust Returned From Early Voting…
After having done the Friday Morning radio show on WSHC with John Case, Elly and I set out to go to Charles Town, WV, for a visit to the Jefferson County Courthouse for early voting. Since John and his...
View ArticleA day of celebration underscored by personal madness…
AT 4:30 this morning when I posted Obama‘s win I had had 2 1/2 hours of sleep and needed to be up by five to drive to Hagerstown for the first of five different scheduled lab visits, Doctor...
View ArticleMy daughter, Cassandra, has come down from Connecticut and is helping my wife...
I don’t know what I would do if I were on my own, here, dealing with doctors changing schedules without giving us warning, accidentally taking medications that should have been discontinued before...
View ArticleHey Radio Fans… I’ll be on from 10:30 to Noon today…
This will probably be the last time in the next two weeks that I can be on the air, given my forthcoming hospital visit next week. So… I’ll be thrilled to get your call-ins on “Talk To Me”...
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