Patrick – Page 78 – They're Just Words

Posted on November 23, 2017January 25, 2018 by Patrick

Americaland

This is an excerpt from my recent book, Lessons From The Good Books, What a Reading Addiction Taught Me About America, Music & Sports ©2016. The “Lessons” are set off in bold type.

Bismarck, North Dakota, is the bulls-eye of America, equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Me and my oldest son had the occasion not too long ago to pretty much drive through the whole of America, east to west. Along the way, we solved a lot of the country’s problems.

Posted on November 22, 2017November 9, 2017 by Patrick

Fifty Years At Our Favorite Thanksgiving Restaurant

Lots of people, if they pay any mind to her at all, only think of Alice in late November. It’s a shame really because her story is way cooler than, say, Lola’s or Gloria’s or Maggie May’s. Most of the girls you hear about on the radio will break your heart, but Alice isn’t like that. She’s more down to earth, has a better sense of humor. Alice is, on the surface, a humble cook, yet if you take eighteen minutes or so to listen to her tale you’ll discover that she’s a revolutionary. Anyway, I can’t imagine spending Thanksgiving Day without her.

Posted on November 22, 2017November 16, 2017 by Patrick

Sports’ Undangered Species

Starting with his first trip to Wimbledon in 1973, girls would literally attack Bjorn Borg, in a phenomenon known as a Borgasm.

Have you noticed a lot of the things that used to be popular seem to be in the tank in the twenty-first century? Do those things just suck now or are we so hyperstimulated today, have such short attention spans that we are ready to move on to the next thing even if the last thing was still perfectly good?