I'm not buying it for one split second. Not having it. There's something going on and frankly I don't like it. Where's this ...

I hate Las Vegas.  Too many people. Making too much noise. Smoking too many cigarettes. And losing too much money they simply don't have...

Went for a little bike ride last Sunday. Just 32 miles from Wilderness Park in Downey down the bike path to Seal Beach. It's a quaint li...

This is Tirana's Rock. Chances are you've never seen or heard of it. Unless, like my youngest daughter Abby, you had an itch to visi...

As a dedicated blogger of more than 17 years, I can tell you there are times when coming up with idea to write about can be...oh, what's...

Today's blog post comes directly to you from the Hardly Newsworthy Files.  As you can see, I have completed the decoration of my new hom...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are about to make our descent." At this point in our troubled history, where 1/3 of the country is not d...

The bad news is I'm at the very tail end of the Mad Men Binge-athon. The good news is I won't be writing many more blogs about it, a...

Today's post revisits us from March of 2009. It's about advertising, which I don't write about much these days. What is there to...

Like you, I don't read many magazines these days, suffice for the ones that are laying around my dentist's office. Or, if my bronchi...

This is my father's Don Draper hat. It's been with me since 1989, when he passed away at 57 years of age, way, way too young. Especi...

I'm no scientician, but sometimes I play one on the interwebs. That is to say, I was fairly good student of biology, chemistry and calcu...

Before we begin, allow me to apologize. I've taken a momentary inventory and now realize this is the third post in a row about our Dear ...

This is the current state of my Trump library. One shelf, a little more than a dozen books. It would be twice or maybe even thrice the size,...

I despise AI. However, given my artistic deficiencies and my inability to wrangle the code for Photoshop or InDesign, I love AI.  Disclaimer...

About 25 years ago, I was the Group Creative Director at Y&R/Irvine (Young & Rubicam) tasked with overseeing the creative work for J...

"Strike 3. You're outtahere." "Not so fast Buck Rogers. The Red Sox have challenged the call at the plate." What the...

As you might expect, I hang out a lot with people my age. Some younger, some older. And many of the conversations revolve around retirement....

Let's talk about elitism.  Not through the lens of politics -- although that might come up -- but through the world of sports, entertain...

  "Rich, you might want to reach for the Prevagen. It's not Thursday. It's Monday." Thank you unnamed rhetorical reader, m...