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July 21, 2024

Thoughts Following An Attempted Assassination

Faith, Life assassin, Garfield, Kennedy, kill, Lincoln, McKinley, political, shoot, shot, Theodore Roosevelt, Trump, woumd 34 Comments J P

I am about as young as it is possible to get for someone who remembers anything about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For most of my life there has been a common thread among Americans – the ability to answer the question “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?”

July 12, 2024

On Getting A License Plate

Life 31 Comments J P
July 5, 2024

Rare Combinations in Jazz

Jazz, music 1940, 1957, Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, Charlie Christian, Columbia, Count Basie, Freddie Green, Jo Jones, John Hammond, June Christy, Lester Young, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole, Walter Page 7 Comments J P
June 28, 2024

Magnetic Tape In The Recording Industry – This Changed Everything

music 1946, 3M, Ampex, audio, Bing Crosby, disc, Magnetephon, record, tape, wax 22 Comments J P
June 21, 2024

JP’s Book Report – June Edition

Life Brown, Chase, Chesterton, Clive Cussler, father, Isaac Bell 19 Comments J P
June 14, 2024

A New Car

Life car, new, showroom 34 Comments J P
June 7, 2024

The Making of Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz, music 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, band, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, jazz, vocal 10 Comments J P
May 31, 2024

Life With A Truck – One Year Later

Life CDL, drive, Freightliner, license, rig, semi, tractor, trailer, truck 25 Comments J P

Has it been a year already? Yes it has been. Last May I formally filed papers which put my law license on retirement status and started school to learn how to drive a semi truck. So how has it been? Let me tell you.

May 24, 2024

Suffering The Rush Hour Commute

Life commute, commuting, life, rush, travel, work 25 Comments J P
May 18, 2024

JP’s Book Report – May, 2024 Edition

Life 1984, Aleph, books, Borges, Calvin, calvin-coolidge, Coolidge, Faust, Flannery, Goethe, history, Nineteen Eighty-Four, O'Connor, Orwell, politics, Shlaes, The Violent Bear It Away 29 Comments J P

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