Birthdays and Family
Note: the title image is of me when I was little, sitting in the lap of my grandfather, James C. Kerns. Most of my family’s birthdays occur in a six week span from mid-July to the...
Author: Ken
Vegas
So I spent the last week in Las Vegas for work. The United Mine Workers were having their 55th Constitutional Convention there, and as their pension plan administrator, The Funds sent a delegation of...
Jim’s Unsung Heroes
I only met one of my grandfathers, James C. Kerns. He died when I was young. But I did remember his story about his surviving a catastrophic injury during the Battle of the Bulge....
Love Wins
This week has been big for the forces of love and compassion and equality, and a pretty dark one for those who celebrate a heritage of hate, for those who don’t care about doing...
Fall TV: Sundays
Sunday night in the fall is Football Night in most households. At least, that is, the households who like watching grown men dressed in tight outfits run around like children chasing after a pigskin....
Fall TV: Fridays
Fridays are date night. Movie night. Drinking night. Anything-but-watch-a-TV night. At least, that’s been the case ever since since the end of the monster ratings hits that made ABC’s sitcom lineup truly TGIF television....
Rebranding
The image above recently won a contest on logomyway.com as part of my “rebranding” efforts. And yes, I used to hate the term “personal brand” but I have come to accept that it is...
Fall TV: Thursdays
Thursdays are supposed to be “must see TV.” This has been true even before Friends was the mega-hit of the 90s, which spawned enough clones and wannabes that its parent network, NBC, basically ruled...