The chill wind of autumn

Fifty-one years ago I knocked on an apartment door on the south side of San Jose, out near Tully Road, an unremarkable act that I did not realize would change my life.I needed to use a telephone to get phone service for the apartment two doors down where my three San...

The Christmas column

I’ve lived sixty one years, and would like to live another sixty one. By my calculations that means I’ve lived through sixty one Christmas’s. I really like Christmas. Maybe it’s just where I’m sitting, but it seems to me that on that day, once a year, the world’s a...

The Christmas Column

Sometimes things happen that are bigger than life. It was last Christmas, and Deb Livermore, Armondo Garcia, Chef Mike, a saxophone playing friend of Armondo’s and myself decided to spread a little holiday cheer. Mike can sing those syrupy Christmas songs like Andy...

The Christmas DJ

I’ve always thought it would be cool to be a disk jockey on the radio. Spin just the right tunes from a vast music collection for all you listeners to enjoy, just as if you were at a party with your closest friends. My little brother was a DJ in college and even...

The Christmas DJ

(Editor’s Note:  Third Saturdays are normally Don Denison days but, as you probably know, Don has been hospitalized for a while now and has missed a few months.  The good news is that Bob Thomas posted an update on Don yesterday on the Message Board...