Life In The Great Midwest

Well, sorta.
The year was 1989 and I had just taken the job of Exec Art Director at a Chicago office of Young & Rubicam in the western suburbs at the time. Clients were arriving for meetings the following day and we were busy preparing our presentation....

About a year ago I stopped buying new music, just listening to Sirius XM and the various channels that they have on offer.  A few nights ago I sat on my porch and started going through the songs that I had bought over the years and picked out a few of...

In my carnivorous and predatory world there are two kinds of deer. Them that are in range. Them that are out of range.
On the way to the store Sunday morning a doe was standing in the middle of a county road. As I slowly approached she wandered into the woods. Standing on the other side of the road in short grass was a fawn no larger than a medium size dog....

I remember as a kid watching "Lawrence of Arabia" where he led Arab raiding parties against the Turkish train lines in WW1.  Per this PBS article about Lawrence:
With the Ottoman army spread thinly across the empty vastness of the Arabian Peninsula, the Hejaz Arabs found it relatively easy to strike and sabotage Turkish lines of communication and supply. With the Red Sea firmly in British hands, the Turks had...