Huh? What's Up With That?

  memories...#1                 There are certain memories that resurface more often than other remembrances.     What is so much fun about scenes stored in my memory vault  is that many times I didn’t realize at the time the portrait in front of me would become a lasting impression, much less memorable.     I like this quote I saw years ago:  You never know when you are making a memory.      HUH ?   What's up with that ?   Memories have provided a bonanza for multiple industries, including, music, drug therapies, long-term care facilities, and, memory preservationists.   According to Lyrics.com , there are over 163 thousand songs with the word memory in the title, lyrics, or, album title.    If a product’s popularity is gauged by the amount of advertising dollars spent to promote and market the product,  Prevagen  has to be one of the front runners in memory ai...

  round up 33 cents...or not?                      I fondly recall watching my favorite cowboy shows on Joe and Ruth's 17" RCA black and white television.   Westerns were my deal.     I had all the gear.  Hat, pants, shirt with buckskin fringes, cowboy boots, and two six shooters that were strapped to my waist.    So many times I was Lash LaRue snatching a weapon right out of the bad guy's hand with my eight foot long bullwhip.     When I saw Wild Bill Hickock  outdraw two desperadoes, he became another one of my heroes.      But, most of all, I wanted to be The Lone Ranger .  The idea of wearing a mask and going incognito while saving the damsel in distress appealed to some inner heroic sense.   Trying to recall specific incidents or show themes from early television days is problematic, but,  I know most of those dramas featured an episode or two in w...

job$ somebody's gotta do...                                                                 Except for minor inconveniences and petty complaints about flying in general, I rarely think about the effort of all the people it takes to lift off the ground the behemoth I am boarding.     HUH ?   What's up with that ?    I know the airplane has been fueled, pilots are on board, baggage handlers will load my luggage in the proper compartment, service agents are waiting for me to board, the ground crew will guide us to the runway, and traffic controllers will get us safely in the wild blue.     But, I don't ever recall wondering when the plane was last inspected or serviced for any potential mechanical deficiency.     Enter Federal Aviation Inspector Eric Sherman.  He also has one of the ...

#4 of oddities, observations, & ?'s...                                                                 Last February, along with other former and current broadcasters, I was invited to help judge the Indiana high school and college annual student broadcast competitions held at the University of Indianapolis.     It's good to be relevant.    As Regina and I drove north on I-65, we were just south of Seymour, Indiana heading for the Circle City, when we saw two young motorcyclists across the grassy median heading south and zipping by every car they approached.      Doing wheelies at 70 miles per hour or more on an interstate would qualify anyone as an adventurist.  The front wheels of the motorcycles were three or four feet in the air as those cowboys straddled their bikes like rodeo hero...

ukraine one year later...                                           Dr. Bogdan Groboviy, his wife, Natalia, and their oldest child, Aleksey, 31, were all born in Ukraine.  The couple's two youngest children, Marianna, 16, and Patrick, 15, were born in America in Louisville, Kentucky.    Natalia, Aleksey, and Dr. Groboviy were refugees brought to the United States by a Catholic charity.    Dr. Graboviy was born in Lviv in Western Ukraine.  He is a dentist and practiced in Ukraine for five years before leaving his homeland in 1996.  As soon as he and his family arrived in the United States, Dr. Graboviy returned to school and upon completion of his studies, opened a dental practice in Louisville.    His extended family still resides in Ukraine.      It has been almost one year since we first sat down with Dr. Graboviy and disc...

a woman making history...                                                                              According to its website , Women in History Month, Had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress asked the president to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as Women's History Week .     Since  1995, U.S. presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as  Women’s History Month .       In the  past, a doctor, two barbers, and, an airline pilot, all females, who were making their own history, were featured in this space.       This year, we caught up with a structural engineer for UPS Airlines.  Jacqueline (Jaci) Sherman,...

  it's a new today...                       If I greet someone with the standard, Hey, What's new,  there is a good chance I would then have to listen to a litany of just exactly what is new .  On a cultural level, so much has changed since Covid-19, so, I no longer pose such an innocuous question.     The pandemic has been discussed in every imaginable format.  It's difficult to imagine any facet of the three-year scourge on humanity that hasn't undergone a close examination under the most stringent of tests...the court of public opinion.     HUH ?   What's up with that?   Last March, a post titled, It's Different... looked at some of the changes wrought by Covid.  Almost a year later, the innovations mentioned are still with us and have even expanded.    I asked several family members and a couple friends, all under 50 years of age, what changes they have noticed a...