My first job – that is, my first real job – was at a television station in Hartford, Connecticut. I was nineteen and regrouping after a brief and spectacularly unsuccessful experience at the University of Colorado, when, miraculously, I was offered a job as Floor Manager at the local NBC affiliate, WKNB-TV. To be quite…
Doors open and close for us all through life. I was reminded of that tonight while having a bite to eat with my old friend, Doug Carlson, here in Sacramento. My first real job — and still the one I enjoyed the most — was at WKNB-TV, the NBC television affiliate in New Britain, Connecticut….
Every so often, for no particular reason, I’ll start singing the lyrics of an old radio commercial … one that stopped airing probably 60 years ago. That draws strange looks from my daughter, should she happen to have stopped in for a cup of coffee. I remember a lot of them … the jingles, the…
I like staying in good hotels. I like the clean, efficient rooms with wi-fi and little soaps in fancy boxes and the instant hot water in the showers. And I like the hotel restaurants with efficient, polished servers … especially those restaurants with Eggs Benedict on the breakfast menus. But there is a certain funky…