For years when I met people, they would ask me if I was related to Steve Madden, the shoe guy, or the football guru and game creator John Madden. No, but I did meet big John at the Bing Crosby Golf Tournament in Pebble Beach, CA. At the time I was representing Bing’s wife, Kathryn, … More Cheers For Maddens Who Mattered, Whose Talents Impressed Multitudes!
Funny, how vulnerable our ears are. Especially the left one which is more often in the sunny spotlight when you’re driving a convertible or with your tanned arm sticking out of the driver’s side window. One of mine has recently gone through a hollowing process, a multi-step surgery to expel what a sample sent to … More This Ear Today Now, Has More Tomorrows
Sadly, this past week we all lost someone special, even saintly. Eva Marie Saint undoubtedly is now appearing in her final debut on a much loftier, bigger screen, heaven. Hollywood parishioners will long remember when she made one of the most spectacular film debuts in Hollywood history in On the Waterfront as the beloved costar … More Eva Marie Saint’s Final Debut
Yes, to me writing is not just an artful form of expression, but can it greatly enrich and benefit exhaling. If you just take it all in and keep it there, you’re bound to impregnate your mind with endlessly regurgitating thought, worries that can make you restless, even up all night. Writing is the exhaust … More Why is Writing Healthy? It Improves Breathing!
Pope Leo XIV’s recent warning to safeguard against the most disruptive effects of artificial intelligence on humanity has begun to sink in. Over the next five years AT&T is said to be planning to invest $38 billion to hire and train blue-collar front-line workers, many of whom might lack college degrees yet are skilled technicians … More Pope Warns, AT&T Heeds Applying A.I. Humanely
Rita and I are walking along our blissful beachfront in Boca Raton, and of course as usual I’m picking up discarded plastic bottle caps desecrating our pristine beach as we go. So far, I have collected two blue caps and one white one. As I proudly capped my military service to our great country after … More A bottle cap went missing On Memorial Day Weekend
What’s one of the most dangerous jobs in the world? That’s an easy one! Just ask Presidents Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Truman, Ford, Reagan and especially now Trump. The bell-ringer answer is the highest office in the land held by the bellringer himself, the President of the United States of America, with the current president … More This Ballroom Will Make It Hard For Assassins to Hunt Their Prey
You better come into these arenas prepared for an adroit battle and looking your best as an astute gentleman wearing a perfectly pressed suit with matching handkerchief and tie or if you’re a woman, cheekily dressed business casual in blazer with tailored trousers or pencil skirt with a collared shirt, or maybe a refined knit … More Here’s Battleground for Top Jobs The Company CEO’s Smart Office
ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir does an excellent job reporting the news only he like all the other broadcasters follows a pattern reporting the news which I’d like to see revised a little bit. Instead of starting off fully reporting the top major news story at 6:30 PM EST, all the national television … More Woman Charges Cruise Line Served Her Too Many Drinks
Yes, it certainly was a momentous, glorious, fantastic achievement, an historic moonshot, a mission we all watched intently from start to finish, many with bated breath! Here was our dauntless, bravely adventurous crew of Artemis II astronauts managing to successfully fly 700,000 miles, circle the moon, be the first to see its dark side, then … More Long Shall We All Remember The Artemis II Mission Majestic!