By Bob Batch Anyone who’s about my age will certainly remember the song, ‘A Boy Named Sue’ by Johnny Cash. It was such a big hit when it was released back in the sixties that even though Johnny Cash was considered a ‘country’ artist, everyone knew the song because it got so much radio play. [...]
By Bob Batch Years ago I bought a memory course on cassette tapes after I saw it advertised on an info- mercial. It was created by the same guy that years later sold the book with natural cures that “They don’t want you to know about”. For some reason I can’t, um…. remember his name, [...]
By Bob Batch When you live midst the urban sprawl as we do around the New York Metro area you really lose touch with the elements and the seasons in a way. I mean you experience the leaves in autumn and the snow in winter to some extent, but not to the degree where it [...]
By Bob Batch Way back in the days when I first started driving a car it seemed like a big inconvenience to earn a license because the law required it – but it was required, so that’s what everybody did. There had been a time many years earlier before cars clogged the gradually developing roads, [...]
By Bob Batch Well, after the world ended back there on Dec. 21st this is what we’re left with. We’ll just go on imagining that all this craziness exists, and pretending that it all matters. In the aftermath of the ‘Holidays’, and by the way, I think it’s correct to use the term ‘The Holidays’ [...]
By Bob Batch I am writing to you, not from some storm-ravaged location in the tri-state area, as would a true correspondent, but from the stronghold where I watched endless hours of storm coverage during the disastrous hurricane last month. Would that we could have appeased the gods of storm and destruction with a sacrifice [...]
By Bob Batch Back in the heyday of National Lampoon Magazine one of their classic covers pictured a docile and sad-eyed dog with a gun pointed at its head along with a caption that read, “Buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this dog!” Of course, it was just a joke, admittedly a somewhat sardonic one, [...]
By Bob Batch Now that we have reached autumn once again we can take a deep breath and reflect back fondly on the summer that just passed – except for one thing if you are a parent with kids in school – shopping for school supplies! I am not sure that any of the major [...]
By Bob Batch Every year as the summer winds down I think back on all the summers I remember- going back even to the days when Edgewater was a little two lane road that ran along the river connecting the George Washington Bridge to the Lincoln Tunnel. All the other stuff around it beneath the [...]
By Bob Batch This year for a vacation we decided to retreat to the mountains instead of the seashore which had been our custom in years past. Despite the differences in the locale and color of each environ, a lot of things are very similar about vacation spots. There always seem to be stores that [...]
