Oh, the words people say

Oh, the words people say

by | Jul 8, 2014 | Musings

Oh, the words people say now, Every night and every day now. Doesn’t matter what they say, Just as long as they do say. My apologies to the late songwriter-singer Joe South, who died of a heart attack in 2012, for paraphrasing the opening lyrics to one of his...
Writing about death is never easy

Writing about death is never easy

by | Jul 3, 2014 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings

In more than a half-century of reporting news, the hardest stories to write have always been about death. In the 1960s, as a young reporter for The Roanoke Times, one of my assignments for the paper required contacting the families of soldiers killed in Vietnam to...
Sun, fun & lunch with a friend

Sun, fun & lunch with a friend

by | May 9, 2014 | Musings

Suffering from a slight sunburn on the scalp this morning after spending most of the day Thursday driving from assignment to assignment, joining a friend for lunch in Vinton and running necessary errands with the top down on my Jeep Wrangler. A Wrangler is a...