All Entries in the "American Life" Category
Grandad’s Stories | The Cow and the Rattle Snake
Grandad’s Stories ~ Wisdom Lessons By: Tony Rollo Grandad was sneaky. He could give a lecture on life before I realized it was a lesson in life. Sometimes it would be about the immediate situation. Other times he was planting a time-bomb in my young brain, triggered to go off in some distant year, set [...]
Pat Boone – The Career Memoir of a Rock-n-Roller
Pat Boone’s new career memoir By – Donny York For me, getting this gig was a case of “Wait until the folks back home find out about this!” It was like the gig of a lifetime even measured against the great gigs I’ve already stumbled into in places like Woodstock or in cinematic majesties like [...]
American Sports | Casey at the Bat
First published on June 3, 1888 in the San Francisco Examiner, “Casey At The Bat” became the most favorite sports writing in America. It spread like wildfire across the nation. Newspapers commonly employed staff fiction and poetic writers because printing was the only media available at the time. Entertaining writing was as important as news [...]
Sunday Reading | Golden Rule of Daily Life
On “The Golden Rule of Daily Life” by: Arthur G. Staples ‘Bout thirty-two years ago, a calendar came to my desk that served a good purpose. It bore on the top of it, a good-sized picture of a carpenter’s square printed in bright gold and, under it, these words, “The Golden Rule : As ye [...]
