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...
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....
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...
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...