PoorRichardsExcuseFrank Wainwright served as McDonalds’ night manager, having attained his status after nearly two years in the fry pit where he earned the reputation as an unflappable flipper who unceasingly delivered product during the lunch and dinner rush. As a manager, he wore a white shirt and tie along with a cheerful countenance when […]
“I’m in awe of Paul McCartney…..He can do it all and he’s never let up…. He’s got the gift for melody (and) rhythm. He can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anybody and he can sing the ballad as good as anybody…And his melodies are…. effortless.… I’m in awe of […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived his life in accordance with his words, and his conscience when he said: “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” He was neither politic nor always […]
Kyle Beach’s sexual assault and harassment charges for events that occurred 11 years ago led to the axe for Joel Quenneville, the second winningest coach in the history of the National Hockey League. Beach—a then 20 year-old professional hockey player—was called up from the minor leagues to serve on the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team’s ‘taxi […]
Ominous clouds hung over the grey November sky when the car stopped in front of the Kansas City train station. A wind gust off the Plains scattered leaves in a chaotic counter-clockwise swirl to the east, my direction home to St. Louis. My friend thought it natural to arrive an hour before the […]
In December, the “Golden Days Committee” will vote to add former players who performed between 1950 to 1969 to the Hall of Fame. The late Curt Flood, a perennial all-star on three pennant winning St. Louis Cardinal teams, should top the list. At a time when true heroes remain hard to find, Flood’s selfless fight […]
Ronald Graughten sat wearily on the thread worn divan alongside the bed where his unconscious mother struggled to breathe as the shallow pool of life still left to her slowly evaporated. He seldom left her side these last two months as cancer’s deadly python slowly squeezed the life out of her emaciated body. […]
Americans oft revere the ‘winners of the world’ as measured by their wealth and fame. In fact, we read and hear far more about heroic professional athletes who ‘earn’ $30 million annual salaries than about the exploits of unsung heroes in our midst. We even elected a president based in part on his perceived […]