Sports
The Early Years Willie Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama, some ten miles west of Birmingham, in 1931, and he later admitted that he sometimes went to schoo…
Author: Tom Lashnits
Tom Lashnits
Tom Lashnits spent 40 years in New York book and magazine publishing before retiring to Bucks County, PA, in 2017. He now volunteers in the school system, produces the baby boomer blog Sightings Over Sixty . . . and is just starting to chase after grandchildren.
Business
I usually don’t talk about the books I read, mostly because they’re not worth talking about — mysteries and thrillers by Michael Conne…
Entertainment
Frank Sinatra And WWII Author William Manchester called him “the most hated man of World War II.” Not because he sided with the Nazis or the Jap…
Humor
Do YOU Remember This Phrase? The other day my wife asked me to do something, follow up on some project I’d started but hadn’t finished. I nodded…
Business
The Rising Cost Of Vacations We toyed with the idea of taking a special vacation this summer. Back in March my daughter in Wisconsin talked about traveling t…
Humor
B had cataract surgery the other day. She’s fine. But I think she’s still suffering a little bit from the sedative they gave her. And I have a col…
Entertainment
A Trip Up North To See Winslow Homer My wife and I took a trip up to New York City to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We wanted to see the exhibit of Winslow Ho…
Give
Buy Here, Pay Here I remember when my folks retired to Florida, back in the 1980s, we saw a used-car lot out on Route 1 with a big sign that adverti…
Life
Driving Stick Is Obsolete I learned how to drive in our old VW bug. The car had no radio, hand-crank windows, and a four-speed manual transmission. I was pret…
Sports
He died of AIDS. But he was famous not so much for the way he died, but for the way he lived his life. The Early Years Of Arthur Ashe Arthur Ashe was born in Richmon…
