Blue Moon Wayne

I remember when I was maybe five or six and we were all caught up in the space race. It was the early sixties  and kids back then had no electronics but we sure did have an imagination. I spent many a day being an astronaut. Sometimes I was a cowboy. Sometimes I was a…

I think that from now on I want to be known as a Highlander. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest. I've never felt like a real American, not like the lucky ones who traced their roots from exotic places. Places filled with stories that enhanced their heritage, that lifted them above an…

The Vietnam War had just ended about a month before I left for basic. My first day of military service was June 2, 1975. I was full of piss and vinegar and ready to get on with getting on. I had joined five or six weeks earlier and gotten married. So there we all were,…

10. I have a very hard time passing them by. ( You try scrolling past 10 things that were hidden from you on the set of Saved by the Bell.) 9. I usually disagree with the list. 8. They almost always segue into a better list resulting in an endless cycle with no good place…

Everything is so big when you are small. I remember downtown Louisville as a child growing up in the early sixties and living near the Watterson Expressway. So many landmarks that we passed by are gone now but live on in my memory and one of them was over one hundred and twenty years old.…

I have been back for about a year and a half. It seems like a few months ago when I told my boss I thought it was time to hang it up. Its been two years and I am becoming very conscious of time now. Where did those two years go? I decided last month…

I'm on a tightrope, one sides hate and the other one is hope, I'm up on the tightwire, linked by life and the funeral pyre, But the tophat on my head is all you see.... Leon Russell For almost a year and a half I have not been able to look away. Like following an…

This has been on my heart for a long time. Don't you know churchy folks always say everything that's on their mind has been on their heart?  Let me start over. This has been on my mind for a long time. Our pastor said something last Sunday that could not be said any better, but half the people…

I have wanted a Second Harley for a long time now. I love my Electra Glide but I want something smaller and lighter to knock around on. Something without a fairing that is a little more like the riding I once loved. Don't misunderstand, I love my Glide but I miss the old style riding.…

It is almost time to start planting and I am not quite ready. Last year around this time I was searching for a disc so I could start my first garden in over forty years. I was pretty proud of that garden too. Right up until the wildlife declared war on it. Like the French…