Stand-up comic Norm Macdonald died today. He was 61. I keep seeing him identified primarily as an anchor on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, so I suppose that has superseded stand-up comic as a primary identifier for him. But I deliberately chose to use it because he was so naturally funny and gifted with a … Read more
The IndyCar community—indeed, the auto racing community at large—has lost one of its greatest friends. Robin Miller has succumbed to his leukemia. There is a fantastic recap of his life at racer.com, and I won’t attempt to summarize it here. I will say Robin endeared himself to so many people because he was genuine. Plainspoken, … Read more
I went by Dad’s after church to say Happy Father’s Day. He’d been looking for something last night that had him going through remembrances and keepsakes, and he found a note from my mom that she wrote him before they were married. Well, it was sort of a note. It was a piece of notebook … Read more