It’s now officially the “Summer of Swelter” here in the midwest. We’ve been offering up our body fluids in 100+ degree temperatures for days – in some places, weeks – at a time. Global Warming now seems an inadequate term. It feels more like Global Melting. And it’s not that dry heat* like in Arizona. [...]
Jack LaLanne died Sunday, at 96 years old. He was one of my heroes. He followed his own voice. He created his own niche, and in the process helped untold numbers of people get healthier. As a byproduct, he became famous and successful, in the best sense of that word. He gave up sugar when [...]
[Greg's note: This boy is the grandson of a friend. I haven't met his mother, but she writes well....and I love the story] How my 5 year plans to change the world On the way to school Tuesday morning, my son asked, “Mom, how do you change the world?” We talked about volunteering time or [...]
This starts out as a funny relationship song then takes a couple of left turns — it doesn’t go where you think it’s gonna go. The video is a Quicktime (.mov) file, and will open on another page. To come back here and leave a comment afterward, just hit your browser’s back button. Jesus Was [...]
If you travel (and maybe even if you don’t), eventually an airline loses your luggage. For reasons you can’t possibly foresee, or even imagine, sometimes it actually works out for the best. I’d been hired to speak and sing for a school group (teachers, counselors, administrators) in Alamosa Colorado. The gig was at 8 AM [...]
NOTE: By request, I have excerpted this story from my book, Atilla The Gate Agent: Travel Tales and Life Lessons From A Musical Laf-ologist. During 1990 I lived in the Cayman Islands, working as an entertainer at a posh resort. Despite the laid back, exotic lifestyle, it was a period of great uncertainty in my [...]
The Hummer automobile is finally going the way of the woolly mammoth and the pterodactyl. The news of the Hummer’s demise has been greeted with the same universal sense of regret as the sudden death of a rabid possum. Even the Chinese don’t want it now. And when the Chinese can’t make money on it, [...]
Brian Luke Seaward has just released a beautiful new film about the healing powers of nature. (Narrated by Michael York!) It’s up to his usual standards, which is to say: high. You can preview it from the links on his website. (Just scroll down a bit and it’s on the right… Here’s a bit of [...]
Analog Brain In A Digital World has just been reviewed – along with a concert – on OpEdNews, one of the top news sites in the world. Can you do me a favor? Would you click through to the article? The more people that click through, the higher its ranking and the longer it stays [...]
Many years ago John Denver introduced Tina Turner at the Grammys this way: “She’s the woman God put on earth to show other women how to dance in high heels.” This has nothing to do with high heels, dancing, Tina Turner, or John Denver, but I thought about his line last night when I learned [...]
