Thursday - March 28th, 2024
WordPress Site - Powered By OnDigitalPublishing

Posts Tagged With ‘ Chris Rodell ’

 
I’m 60 today. Only as old as I feel?
February 15th, 2023

 (932 words) I turn 60 today. That’s what my driver’s license says so it must be true. The number is vintage enough to provoke friends into telling me I’m only as old as I feel.  It’s a charming concept, but I’m old school.  In fact, I’m so old school I’m willing to concede that any reputable school district starts revving up the bulldozers when ever a building hits 50. But I was taught to use Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

February 15th, 2023
Happy Valentine’s Day to me and my Parkinson’s!
February 8th, 2023

 (757 words)I hadn’t been on a blind date in more than 30 years. I wasn’t seeking companionship. I wasn’t needy or desperate. My life was fulfilling. And then there was this:I was married. Had a couple of kids. A dog. The whole nine yards (and, no, none of the nine yards was mowed, raked nor landscaped, but that’s another story).Clearly, on Valentine’s Day 2018, I wasn’t expecting to be fixed up Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

February 8th, 2023
Hear ye! Hear ye! Tweets of the Month!
January 30th, 2023

• In my on-going efforts to test the boundaries of the so-called “No Judgement Zone,” I’ll today show up to exercise at the Planet Fitness wearing just my Speedo. • For better or worse, I fear the way we become acquainted continues to coarsen. We used to withhold judgement. Now we scour the internet for failings. We used to wait to get to know you better. Now, we’re in a hurry to know you worse Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

January 30th, 2023
From 2004: “Joe Hardy: The Billionaire who’s Bound to Die Broke”
January 8th, 2023

Pittsburgh Magazine in 2004 asked to write a cover story about Joe Hardy, founder of 84 Lumber and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. Flawed and controversial, I remember him as one of my favorite interviews ever. He died yesterday, his 100th birthday.Joe Hardy: The Billionaire Who’s Bound to Die BrokePittsburgh MagazineBy Chris RodellIt’s become fashionable for cheeky reporters to ambush aging Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

January 8th, 2023
Me on lesbians
January 4th, 2023

                                        (792 words)Our daughters’ reactions to my provocation were so visceral, so instantaneous, and so homicidal I remember being glad the girls don’t pack heat.We’d just finished watching some pleasant-looking young lady, a talent show contestant, belt out a rousing rendition of some pop ditty with which I am unfamiliar and we began to opine.“Nailed it,” said Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

January 4th, 2023
Hooray! Best Tweets of ’22!
December 31st, 2022

 The picture above depicts exactly how I imagine these being consumed/read by you and your loved ones, You take turns reading all 161 outloud with the rest of the listening family roars with laughter.It’s really presumptuous of me thinking anyone would want to read ANY of them.But if you want to browse, I put my favorites in bold. I set out to do a top 20, but I began to even bore myself and Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

December 31st, 2022
December “Tweets(?)” of the Month
December 29th, 2022

 • There oughta be a litmus test for the number of times a lazy reporter can declare a non-scientific judgement a litmus test• Our daughter is studying ancient times in the hopes of becoming a future historian, an aspiration that I believe must involve some sort of time travel. I imagine we’ll one day be sitting down to watch a program and she’ll just before our eyes disappear. Her mother will Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

December 29th, 2022
Why I never write about going to High School in Mt. Lebanon
December 16th, 2022

 (767 words)The question caught me by surprise. One of my oldest buddies had made the drive from Pittsburgh to Latrobe to spend the day drinking, joking and generally ditching the world of common responsibilities.So it was pretty much like we’d time traveled back to high school for a day of carefree hookie.Then he asked me if I’d ever suffered a trauma in high school.In fact, I had. I’d been Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

December 16th, 2022
What will I call my “Tweets of the Month” when Twitter goes away?
November 30th, 2022

• Women age distinctly; men uniformly. As a woman ages, she becomes more individual — her hair color, her laughter, her manner of dress — all put her in sharp relief from other women. All men age the same. We lose hair, gain weight and generally stumble thru life w/ the bewildered expressions of men who mistake the sliding glass patio door for open and repeatedly slam into the invisible solid. Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

November 30th, 2022
A jiffy moment or two about time
November 22nd, 2022

(587 words)I’m a guy with plenty of time on his hands so I wonder about the passing of time pretty much round the clock.Speaking of clocks, historians say the first one was built in the year 1270. Catching a bus before then must have required infinite patience.It sounds simplistic, but I wonder how they decided clock hands ought to go clockwise. Really, how would they know?If anyone has time to Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

November 22nd, 2022