I am always and forever a student of humans and I try to make sense of life in northeast Pennsylvania.
Topics include:
- So the biggest news according to a local newspaper is that there will be beer to drink in Kirby Park during the Fourth of July holiday.
- It s a rare motorist in northeast Pennsylvania who hasn't had an encounter with a deer.
- So the new Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport terminal will be open soon and boy, I can't wait.
- I wish I understood how money works.
- I wonder sometimes what would happen if the thin line between civilized behavior and no holds barred, bull goose loonyness were to be crossed.
- It was a strange Sunday morning and it just kept getting weirder.
- Modern life has all sorts of interesting ways to stress you out that our ancestors didn't have to deal with.
- My long suffering wife claims that I used to dance to the Billy Ray Cyrus song, Achy Breaky Heart.
- Parking lots shouldn't cause your blood pressure to rise.
- Sometimes you have to wonder about the thought processes that go on in our rulers' minds.
- There must be a parallel universe where people who write letters to the editor live.
- We knew were in trouble when the two truckloads of huskies passed us.
- Whoever said that a man's home is his castle hasn't been in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania lately.
- Why is it that some guys insist on calling you nicknames?
- With all due apologies to the hundreds of restaurants in the area that serve buffets - I can't stomach it.
- It's the holiday season and whoop di do hickory dock, don't forget to have your gun cocked they'll be ripping off your safe tonight.
- All I wanted to do was fill the car up with overpriced gas.
- Although my physique doesn't show it I have spent much of my adult life in one gym or another.
- Apparently my back yard is some sort of party central at night and I wasn't invited.
- During the holiday season, the number of stupid drivers increases by a factor that I can't begin to calculate.
- Hi, my name is Jim and I am an email addict.
- I am not really that hard to please.
- I am the clumsiest person I know.
- I gave up coffee a while ago.
- I gave up smoking in the time when cars still had ashtrays.
- One of my pet peeves is people who ask - Who's calling? - when they answer the phone for someone.
- I have never really had a run in with the police.
- I know more about the guy, sitting across from me at lunch the other day, then I want to.
- I should have suspected something was amiss when I saw the sign.
- I think that our experience with birthdays goes in cycles.
- I try to present a lighthearted demeanor to the world.
- I was on a road trip the other day - a long one about six hours - in a car with a couple of other radio guys.
- I have never been in a real fist fight.