Believe it or not, when I was a kid I’d sometimes tell stories that didn’t represent the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As a result, when my mother found out that I’d stayed after school for shooting spitballs at Suzie Springer—and not because I’d volunteered to set up chairs in the […]
I like beer—beer is good. There’s nothing like a cold beer on a hot summer day, or a cold winter night, or . . . well, you get the idea. Beer drinking has become more complicated than when I started drinking beer in the late sixties. Back then, there were about six kinds: Bud, Schlitz, […]
Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain said it years ago, and there have been many days when I finished up on the links, pulled the calculator out of my golf bag to add up my score, and had to agree with him. Living here in the north country, I have all winter […]
I was a skinny kid during my years at Smalltown High. I was on the track team and ran several miles a day, nearly year round. I can remember eating fattening stuff, like ice cream and cake, when I wasn’t even hungry, just to try to keep my weight up. That’s no longer a problem […]
My daughter, Maggie, is getting married this summer and I’m here to tell you that things have changed . . . a lot . . . since the little woman, Winnie, and I tied the knot in 1977. The Wright household is all atwitter with excitement over the wedding plans and, while I have offered […]
