Early in his career, Steve Earle was playing in a club called the Old Quarter in Galveston, Texas, to a “crowd” of about four people, when in walks his hero, Townes Van Zandt, who proceeds to sit directly in front of him. …

So there you are, away from home — at the office, a shopping mall, your daughter’s tuba recital, wherever — when nature calls. And she’s in no mood to be put on hold.

You excuse yourself and scout out the nearest loo. Only to find, there’s no room at the…

Re(tro)views

Billy Joel started this.

It was back in the early ’80s, around when Joel’s “Uptown Girl” video was rotating on MTV. I read this magazine interview, he was asked something about the path to there from Glass Houses and from Piano Man before that. …

Don’t know about you, but I came out of Sunday school as a kid thinking the Bible said God made a garden for Adam and Eve, a paradise on earth for His children, and they screwed it up by obeying the Devil.

Turns out, the Bible doesn’t say any of…

When you write, are you focused on what you have to say, who you are, and getting those across on the page?

If so, and if you write for any kind of response — audience engagement, votes, purchases, calls to set up new accounts, whatever — you can probably bump…

Before I proceed to tick off a lot of people I agree with politically, while garnering attaboys from some folks I think are dead wrong about pretty much everything, there are three points I need to make clear.

First, I’m a liberal. …

I suppose every group has its quirks. And as long as they’re harmless, well, you gotta go along to get along, right?

But I have to admit, there are a few kinda odd things that Medium writers tend to do which, some days, drive me right up the wall. …

In the past two days I’ve read three articles here about the Rittenhouse trial, slamming the judge as biased because, among other sins, he has a “Trump rally song” as his ringtone, a phrase I’ve seen in various permutations in mainstream media headlines as well. …