Huh? What's Up With That?

  by design...                 When I first met Steve Kahn before the century turned, he was wearing a New York Yankee baseball cap.   We became acquainted when he frequented a business which I was a  part time worker during the summers of my Encore Performance .  He was an almost weekly customer, but I never saw him without that cap or its replacements.     The Bronx Bombers logo is what made me notice Mr. Kahn.     HUH ?   What's up with that ?    I grew up in a household that revered the Yankee tradition of fielding some of the game's all-time remarkable players.  My dad saw Babe Ruth play and who knows how many other legends.    Over several years in the 50s and early 60s, a trip to see the  Boys in Pinstripes  play the White Sox in Chicago was an annual or every other year event for the George brothers from Indianapolis.  A couple of our dad's friends a...

oddities, observations, & omg's...                                                             I have often wondered how close I came to being a child prodigy.    HUH ?   What's up with that ?    Was it a hands down deal that I was to be as I am?  Could it have been something totally different at 10 or 11 years old?  A gene in a different location or even an altered alignment of my DNA might have been all it would have taken for a child prodigy of music, math, or, even pop culture, to have emerged.     However, none of that happened.  Ordinary is my average.  But, as you read further you will see that I do share early age similarities to a child prodigy.....just in a different way.      The first presidential race I remember was 1952.  I marveled at t...