Lane Guthrie
I wasn’t the only environmental activist in the ‘60’s. One of the more illustrious was an Easter Airlines pilot named Lane Guthrie. In those days as a plane landed the unburned fuel was blown into the air as a safety measure. Less to explode and burn in a crash. But we were fighting to pass […]
Timothy Leary
I have been a scientist, really! Observations of natural facts, leading to testable hypotheses and theories: The Scientific Method! It has given us our modern world. But, I have had enough uncanny experiences to convince me there is more than we can see, a hidden dimension. I refer to these experiences as “Woo-Woo!” One of […]
Bob Daily, Mike Launer, and Lady.
One thing about the 60s and marijuana was the MUNCHIES! Oh, yeah, chocolate chip cookies were the cure! One night a friend Tom, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Miami, and I walked to the mini mart at Bird Road and 27th Avenue. I know it was 1968 because on the way […]
What did you call that group of animals again?
Basset Hounds
I grew up with Basset Hounds. Sweet stinky clowns. Needed baths, practically daily! Jackie Cooper, a former child actor, starred in a black and white 1950s sitcom called The Peoples’ Choice. It featured his pet Cleo, a talking basset hound, who commented on the goings on. Every time a popular show has a purebred pet […]
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Jim Garrison
Here is a story I never thought I would write. A friend is a writer/editor. She has read some of my stories and said I should create a fictional character and drape my life on him. She said a memoir only works if you have interacted with famous people. With Oliver Stone’s biopic of […]
Travels with Phil Eight – Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery – New York City
Being a New York Jew, one of the foods you eat with your mother’s milk is a potato knish. (A client from Chicago named her cute little Labrador mix Knish.) A very thin pastry filled with tasty seasoned mashed potatoes. The BEST knish in the universe is at Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery, conveniently located on Houston […]
Travels with Phil Seven– Sarge’s Deli – New York City
In midtown on Third Avenue not far below 42nd Street is Sarge’s Deli. There are many more famous names in NYC restaurants, but NONE are a more classic NY deli nor BETTER than Sarge’s. They even have whole boiled cow tongues in their deli cases. What more could you ask for? Go there! […]
When Your Monarch Caterpillars Have Eaten Themselves Out Of House and Home
I had unbelievable success in attracting Monarch Moms after planting milkweeds. In no time at all though the little bastards had stripped every leaf off the four plants. So I went to the nursery and bought four more. Then the coolest thing happened: for the first time in my life I saw a Monarch Mom […]