I’m a Midwest boy.  Check that, I’m a Midwest boy who travels a lot.  And while I always like to come home, I have a job that affords me the… Read more

I missed most of the ‘70’s.  Not because I was in a Halcyon daze or anything, but because I was busy being an enfant terrible.  It wasn’t until the ‘80s… Read more

I am the world’s best singer … when no one is around.  I can wail like Aretha when I’m alone in my car with the radio cranked.  I am practically… Read more

I’ll readily admit … I much prefer wearing jeans to anything else.  Good thing I work in a place where casual attire is the norm.  (And by casual, I mean,… Read more

Kristin Machacek was my first protégé.  We worked together in DSM where she started as my intern at KCCI.  She was a bright, bubbly college senior that arrived on the… Read more

New Years is one of those random holidays that mean nothing to me.  Like Halloween but with more confetti and streamers.  I used to obsess over the who/what/when/where of ringing… Read more

A million years ago, I had my first taste at fame.  I invited myself on a local morning radio show in Des Moines and never left.  My partner-in-crime was Amy… Read more

Everyone has his or her favorite songstress.  That one female singer whose siren song resonates with them.   Some love Babs.  Others cherish Judy or Jennifer Holiday.   For me, it’s Cindy… Read more

I left Kansas City yesterday at 10am and drove to Des Moines in annoying spitting rain the entire way.  By 1pm … around the time I arrived at Mom and… Read more

My mom Bev (some of you know her as “The Bev-inator”, others as “Beverage”) has an obsession with the weather.   Clearly, she missed her calling.  She should have been a… Read more