Oddball Observations

It's a special Saturday treat.  (or not)   This is some of my favorite music. and . . . and also . . . and then...

You probably heard on the news about Phoenix highways flooding after a 3 to 5 inch rainfall this week.  It was awful. Speaking of str...

Me and my first mentor in broadcast news, the late Bob MacLeod. Early 1960's, KFYR-TV, film editing room Bismarck, North Da...

Recent rains in Arizona have caused some flooding in low lying streets and in desert and mountain washes but the result, on a beautiful sunn...

Gerald Wilson, a jazz trumpeter, arranger and band leader, died Monday in Los Angeles at 96.  He began with Jimmy Lunceford's band in 19...

Phoenix, Arizona is situated in the Great Sonoran Desert.  There are no sand dunes.  It's not that kind of desert.  But it is arid.  Ann...

It doesn't happen very often, when your kids are scattered.  But my big brother had all four of his, husbands, wives and assorted grandk...