Huh? What's Up With That?

times are a changin'...                                        dylan and delanoe       It seems the only things that are permanent are the end of life on earth and change .     HUH ?   What's up with that ?   Go back to your favorite city or other location five years after you last visited and you will see how different the topography looks.  Newly constructed, torn down, and renovated buildings contribute to an altered skyline.     Relationships constantly evolve and change .  Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.   Technology certainly leads the pathway of communication  change today.  New iPhones, new androids, new gizmos, new gadgets.    Medical advancements have allowed us to live far beyond the life expectancy of 40 years ago, or even as few as 20 years.    COVID-19 has certainly chang...

if i can dream...                                              earl brown  '68    The term,  Bucket List,  was made popular following the release of a Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman movie in 2007 of the same name.  Simply put, it is a wish list of things to accomplish before one's life ends, which is sometimes referenced as  kicking the bucket .      HUH?  What's up with that?     The film involves two opposites who by mere chance wind up in the same hospital room.  Both patients find out their futures are limited.  As different as the two men have lived their lives, they realize they agree there are similar things they want to do before spinning off the mortal coil.  Thus, they join forces and a Bucket List of things they wish to experience was created.     For some,  Bucket Lis...

choosing corporate....     I was in law school for one year when I was offered a full-time job with Brown and Williamson Tobacco  in 1975, Sherry Spence said.     Brown and Williamson Tobacco is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco Company and is located in Louisville, Kentucky.   HUH?  What's up with that?   Sherry is now retired, but she has a couple  Encore Performances going on in her life.  She works a couple days a week as a Human Resources Director for a family-owned business in Louisville and she  spends a lot of time with her grandchildren.     Let's start with your college days.  Where did you go and when did you graduate?   I went to UK (University of Kentucky) for two years, then transferred to U of L (University of Louisville) and graduated in '73,  she said.   I went to U of L Law School for one year.     You sandwiched in a short teaching career after graduating colleg...

  encore performances #6...    This is the sixth post featuring special  People Over Sixty (POS) who have retired and make an effort to keep relevant by finding activities and exercise that suits their personalities, needs, and capabilities.   Most of us find being older to be challenging in different ways than life presented at a younger time.  Chief among those changes are health issues that seem to crop up out of nowhere.  There doesn't seem to be a handbook or other guide at Barnes and Noble  or anywhere else on growing old gracefully.  It's an individual effort, but many seem to share the same discomforts and they are as common as losing one's car keys.  Still, the joys life brings are many and looking to the future and being a functional part of society can and should be exciting.        Day to day life unfolds and is presented in such a manner that we never know what tomorrow will bring each of us no matter our...

  how high the moon...                                          lewis and hamilton, 1940   So, your opportunity to try out for the Olympics back in '72 was quashed by the only injury of your career?  How did that happen?        The Olympic Trials were coming up and I was all set to try out,  Mike Hanna, Noblesville (Indiana) High School Girls Pole Vault coach recounted .  The Top 3 are taken and I had cleared 17 feet which would have qualified me.  A few days before the trials, I was practicing and had a bad vault and landed on what's called the front porch of the landing pit.  I caught my right foot on the edge of the pit and a shoe spike caught the mat and turned my ankle around.      HUH?  What's up with that?    How ironic.   And, that was your only injury in all your pole vaulting day...

encore performances #5...    A large part of my second Encore Performance is talking to other people to find out what keeps them interested in life after retirement and then document those findings.  This is the fifth post featuring some of those interviews which were conducted last May.     Interviewing people has been a lifelong passion originating in my earliest broadcast days and lasting all 36 years while in that field.     Following a broadcast career, teaching was my first Encore Performance and it provided a 17 year hiatus from participating in active broadcast experiences.  However, writing this blog has afforded me the opportunity to set new goals and interviewing interesting people is at the top of that list.    After a certain age, most of us want to remain relevant and functional in an increasingly changing world.  One example of constant turnover is music.  Some of us find it demanding to keep abreast of current...

 ... get me memphis, tennessee...                                                                         chuck berry, 1959              This all got started when Kim and I took our son who had just been born to Memphis in August of 1980 to attend an Elvis memorabilia show, Butch Polston told me.     Butch and his wife, Kim, own B and K Enterprises in Charlestown, Indiana.   B and K has the exclusive rights to reproduce costumes with the unique designs worn by entertainer Elvis Presley, but their story goes far beyond just those costumes.  It's really about how hard work and ambition can pay off.        We were basically newlyweds and didn't have two nickels to rub together, he added .     How did going to a collec...