My Book Can Wait! I Want to be a Sportswriter

For some months I have had an urge to write a book. I did the last chapter first, then suffered writer’s block. Now I feel the need to move away from my usual subjects for my columns and I have been casting about for a new direction. I have decided to put my book in limbo for a time, to change the tack of my columns and to write about sports.

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Famous Athletes I Have Almost Known

Famous Athletes I Have Almost Known

While I was in the Jackson County Times office recently I caught Clint The Sports Editor working. I suppose he was working, since he was sitting behind a computer screen. He may have been playing Solitaire. I took this opportunity to tell him that I intended to write a few sports related pieces. He nodded and retorted that he might well come out with some sea stories.

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Pearl Harbor …. And I Was There

I was there on 7 December 1941 when the Jap planes took off from their carriers and flew over our Hawaiian Islands. I was there when they came in low to drop torpedoes that were not supposed to work in Pearl Harbor, but they worked well. I was there when our planes were strafed at the air bases and were unable to take off to defend us. I was there when, at 0800, the color guards at each ship began raising Old Glory and as the bands began playing the Star Spangled Banner.

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The Calendars are Coming! The Calendars are Coming!

The November issue of The National Geographic Magazine features “The Great Migrations”. It traces the meanderings of animals; some flying, some swimming, some running, as their body clocks send them in search of whatever whales and butterflies and birds look for during these events.

We are, ourselves, on the verge of experiencing a migration of a sort.

I am referring to the annual arrival of calendars. Every trip to the mailbox loads you up. Each time you enter the furniture store or your favorite bank, calendars are thrust upon you.

If you have ever contributed to a charity, you will be blessed with a once-a-year “gift”. If you don’t respond promptly, you will be informed that you have forgotten to send your check, and you really should tighten up and get it on the way. This is so they can send you their next solicitation, which will be a ten year supply of address stickers with your name spelled incorrectly.

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