Although I don’t think I have any salmon blood in me, I seem to have spent most of my life swimming against the flow. Three of my lifelong passions are decidedly not in the mainstream … but they date back to my earliest years. Country Music My car radio is permanently tuned to Willie’s Roadhouse.
Do I miss it? Hardly. Still today, when Marie and I see a magazine rack, we look at each other, smile, and say, “Aren’t you glad we no longer care that our magazines are being buried behind the competition?”
A crazy thought in the middle of the night changed my life.
Jeff Clapper’s query I grew up flying in small planes with my dad. We usually cruised at about 9000 ft, which often meant a lot of bumpy flying in clouds. Sometimes I think about this as a metaphor for owning and leading a very small business like 8th & Walton, and I look enviously at
Last week as I often do when we’re returning from Chicago, I dropped Marie at O’Hare, then set off on a meandering road trip home with no time constraints. On this occasion, I decided to take a trip down memory lane. Following the same route I took more than 60 years ago, I motored down
