Author Archives: BBRiley

I haven’t read a comic book since I was in the Army so many years ago. For some reason comic books were the reading of choice for all of us young men (I was in the army so long ago that women in every aspect of the service were the thing of dreams). I doContinue reading “Weekend Man”

I have a golf equipment store not too far from my home and it never fails, every time I walk into it to buy golf balls, tees or get a club regripped, I walk out with a new golf club. Let me clarify. It is not really a new club but a previously owned clubContinue reading “Course Knowledge”

The last thing I thought of when I first signed up for my first land line so many years ago were “robo” calls. I did not sign up for these intrusive calls from telemarketing companies (the civil name I use for such companies. You don’t want to know what I call them when they callContinue reading “Robo Becky”

Thanks to Facebook, I have been able to be in touch with people I haven’t seen in decades. I have been in conversation with former grade school classmates, relatives I haven’t talked to in years and have been able to follow some celebrities I thought I would never be in touch with. Who’d think theContinue reading “Unsocial Media”

I’m a do-it-yourself kind of guy and pretty handy with a wrench. Righty tighty, lefty loosie. What more do you need to know? I do have some experience to back that up. When I was in college, I was an auto mechanic for a couple of years. Job requirements were  the ability to push aContinue reading “Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosie”

I’m the guy who tries to find humor in the world around me. Unlike stand-up comics who pounce on any disaster and finish their joke with the line “too soon?”, I shy away from making fun of tragedy. I also avoid talking politics in this column. I do have an outlet for my political feelings,Continue reading “Shall Not Perish From The Earth.”