Son-shine on Your Shoulders

Good Son-Day!!! Caribbean Queens Memorializing the Very Best in Your Life On the last day of 2023, I am seeing in the Strib, CNN, USA Today, etc articles about famous people who departed from this world into the next such as: Richard Roundtree, DJ Casper, Rudolph Isley, Tina Turner, Bob Barker, Hary Belafonte, Andre Brauger, Jim Brown, Jerry Springer, Al Jaffee, dick Butkus, Brooks Robinson, Tom Smothers, Vida Blue, Willis Reed, Lance Reddick, Bud Grant, Robert Blake, Richard Belzer, Stella Stevens, Tim McCarver, Bobby Hull, Cindy Williams, David Crosby, Gina Lollobrigida, Fred White, Requel Welch, Pee Wee Herman, David McCallum, Lisa Marie Presley, Alan Arkin, Ryan O’Neal, Sandrea Day O’Connor, Jim Hines, Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Marty Kroft, Rosalynn Carter, Bobby Knight, Matthew Perry, Susanne Sommers, Burt Bacharach, Norman Lear,  Sinead O’Connor…etc.  StarTribune and CNN How many of these people do you remember? As you look at the names and the summaries for each person, y

Good Son-Day!!! A Balmy Christmas Eve My First Quagmire Jo and I will share stories of our past before we met each other.  Most of it centers on how we were reared by our parents. At about eight or nine years old, my father had one of those dad to son talks.  He looked me squarely in the eyes and with a stern tone he clearly and emphatically directed me to never put my hand on any female. Period!  Words to live by.  He said walk away, nothing good will ever come out hitting a female even if you are protecting yourself.  Just ask Jonathan Majors, who alleged he was protecting when he clocked his girlfriend who was the aggressor.  I have passed on this same to my son. On the first day of fourth grade at St.Joseph’s elementary school, I arrived at class early. I wanted to connect with classmates I had not seen all summer.  The class sizes back in the day were less than 30; so, I knew everyone.  I sat in the first row and third column from the blackboard.   I was having a rich conversation

  Good Son-Day!!! A Minor League Christmas S e a s o n s  G r e et i n g s The Original 300! Sometimes inspiration for the quick messages posted in the blog come from unexpected sources.  In this case, I want to give a shout to my dear sister, Molly Jackson.  I would be miffed if I did acknowledge her contribution to this week’s post. Alex and I have been fans of kaiju (Japanese for giant monster) flicks like King Kong, Godzilla, more recently the film "Pacific Rim", starring Idris Elba (I bet that got someone’s —- Jo).  Roughly three weeks ago, I saw trailers for Godzilla Minus One.  The trailer looked like fun.  I texted Alex to clue him in on the new film.   This franchise is celebrating its 70th anniversary of the original film released in 1954 in Japan and 1957 in the U.S. In the middle of this last week, Alex texted me and asked if wanted to go see the film.  I saw multiple sources such as Rolling Stone, USA, NY Times, and LA Times gave the movie surprisingly positive r