Mentors

This coming Sunday, I’m looking forward to a visit with one of the greatest people I’ve ever been privileged to know. Flossie Lewis was my English teacher during my sophomore year at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco. As the classic nerd, I...

Merle Haggard

I went on to facebook Wednesday after work and that’s how I found out that Merle Haggard had died. My friend Armando Garcia had posted about seven videos playing pieces of his songs and reading the news of his demise. It hit me hard. It surprised me, really, that it...

Merle Sightings

(Editor’s Note—Once again we bring you a recollection from that master recollector, J.D. Rhynes. Does he make this stuff up? Are the stories true or are the stories figments of his fertile imagination? Since they’re always good ones, guess it doesn’t really matter.)...

Merry Christmas!

How lucky am I, that I have the Wednesday column and Christmas just happens to fall on a Wednesday this year? I reckon this column will be read by even fewer people that mid-week-of-Father’s-Day Festival column. If you are reading this, I have two things to say: 1)...