RoadTurn: Reflections on the Paul Potts Story

We are fairly well moved up the hill to the end of the road and I’ve finally come up with a decent (dial-up) internet connection. It is not AOL. To top it off, we now have a family television package that allowed us to view America’s Got Talent right from the comfort of our living [...]

We’ve been asked to help generate publicity for The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk and are happy to be a part of that effort. Here’s the scoop:
The movement is the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research.
Volunteers become champions in the fight against Alzheimer’s. There are walks [...]

After all the bragging and holier-than-thou blips I’ve dispensed about my family not subscribing to broadcast television, we now have a DSS satellite sitting in the yard. Ostensibly, this is because the kids and I need it for school. A glimpse of reality is that last night we were all excited that we would, for [...]

My boy, Zebadiah, is only six years old and we had to buy glasses for him this year. I hate to see kids that young experiencing physical problems. His mother’s side has a history of needing glasses at an early age, so I got off my tangent of these darned computer screens ruining our children’s [...]

Sometimes it pays not to have television on demand. That may have been the case Tuesday as my family enjoyed a night of sitting around the kitchen table talking and stringing shucky beans while our fellow citizens watched America’s Got Talent. According to Jaya Saxena, writing for Entertainment Weekly, “The opening 20 minutes devolved into [...]

We are back from Florida and darned glad of it. These old mountains have been calling my name. Fresh air is a good thing. I have received the final approval to go ahead and write that master’s thesis and the subject could not be more pertinent right now: Home.
On the making a living side of [...]

We’re still on the road, so I was able to watch last night’s telecast of America’s Got Talent. For my part, this showing vindicated the almost total wipeout last week. Two performers were especially keen: Xavier Lewis calls himself “XL” and could use plenty of PR advice for image, but the guy CAN sing. Matching [...]

There was a time when I enjoyed staying in hotel rooms and eating out regularly. Maybe it’s just me getting older, but somehow the whole deal has lost most of its flair. I’m popping another Claritin D as we speak, trying to fend off the headache and sneezing that comes with almost every hotel experience. [...]

We are on the road again and home is a hotel room. Since we don’t subscribe to broadcast television in Kentucky, last night was my first opportunity to watch the America’s Got Talent show “live.” What a disappointment. It wasn’t even vaguely entertaining: A cross-dressing lip syncher, a strange guy who likes to lie on [...]

We are in Florida tonight and so are a whole lot more people. Thousands are here to see Mickey and friends at Disney World. Thousands more came to see a Canadian revivalist named Todd Bentley. He has set up a tent not far from Orlando and is drawing an increasingly large crowd of visitors from [...]

Checking in with America’s Got Talent this week, the broadcast puts forward a guy who has a story that gives “singing for your supper” a note of reality. Kyle Rifkin sang on the streets to feed his mother and siblings. Now, he’s belting out a Temptations hit, “Ain’t too Proud to Beg,” and getting the [...]

Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana finally fished up some good press when she showed up unexpectedly at a charity concert in Nashville, Tennessee. Maybe Miley took a hint from Faryl Smith? Yes, I know that Faryl is not immune from letting the fans down, but so far she is on track and exhibiting a degree [...]