Nights with the Florida Panthers
February 19, 2012
BY STEVE WINSTON In a world of unpredictability, there’s always been something comforting about the Florida Panthers, our National Hockey League team. For example, over the past decade, they’ve been the most consistent team in the league – at missing the playoffs (they’ve missed it ten consecutive seasons – an NHL record). Without a doubt, they’re [...]
Me and My Cars
January 18, 2012
BY STEVE WINSTON Most guys our age can rattle off every car they’ve ever owned. But not me. I’ve owned so many that I can’t remember them all. But I do remember the stories … My first car was a blue 1960 Studebaker Lark, inherited from my mother. I remember two things about that car. [...]
My Drinks with Teddy Kennedy and George Bush
December 21, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON Me and Teddy Kennedy As the plane carrying my Dad and I arrived at the gate in Washington, D.C., that day in 1968, everyone crowded into the aisle to get their stuff from the overhead bins. My dad was having a hard time getting his sport coat on in the cramped space. [...]
Three Days of Peace and Music
November 30, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON I can still remember that now-famous poster on my wall, that summer of ’69. It was red, with a guitar slung across it, and a white dove standing astride the guitar. “Three days of peace and music,” the poster read. When I woke up each morning in that teenaged summer, it was [...]
Hitchhiking Through Europe
November 9, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON The night of my college graduation, my dad drove me to Kennedy Airport. The next morning I landed in Ireland. And spent the better part of three years hitch-hiking across the continent and the Middle East, and living out of a knapsack. It’s hard to tell the story of a three-year journey [...]
Men are from Mars, Women are from Some Other Galaxy Entirely
October 26, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON Men and women are from different planets, especially when it comes to the ways in which they communicate and the ways in which they perceive things, John Gray told us in his best-selling book. But I disagree. I don’t think we’re even that close! We don’t speak the same language, even when [...]
Extra! Extra! I worked at the National Enquirer
October 4, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON Yes, you read it right. I admit it. For two weeks, many years ago, I worked at The National Enquirer. There … I said it! My story started in a raging 1978 blizzard that tied up the whole Northeast. And as I looked out my 11th-floor window at downtown Hartford that night, [...]
Into the Wild Blue Yonder
September 13, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON I love flying old fighter planes from World War II. When I squeeze into the cockpit, with a wooden instrument panel that looks like an antique toy, I’m transported back to those days when these planes helped free the world, and “The American Century” was in full flower. I nearly got to [...]
Hanging from a Cliff
July 25, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON What the hell was I doing here? And why hadn’t I listened to my gut? I was 50 years old. I was hanging from a cliff at 4,000 feet, in the Nantahala Gorge in the Great Smoky Mountains. And I knew that my life would be over as soon as my arms [...]
OMG … Who’s That Face in the Mirror?
July 14, 2011
BY STEVE WINSTON It’s my father’s, that’s who! (Who did you expect?) As boys, one of our worst nightmares was that we would turn into our fathers. Now – 9 years after his death – I see my father looking back at me every time I look in the mirror. In fact, I recently e-mailed [...]
American Political Idol
July 3, 2011
By Dick Methia The 2012 presidential campaign would be the most entertaining on record if Fox broadcast a TV special called “American Political Idol.” Every presidential candidate would get four minutes in prime time. No grand speeches, no canned commercials, no boring debates. Just four minutes to belt it out to America. To attract an [...]
Middle Age Dating
April 23, 2010
Hello Fellow Cave-Dwellers, Are you about to step back onto that zany roller coaster ride known as dating? First dates are a most daunting thing, especially if we haven’t been on the circuit for quite some time. Trying to come up with enough conversation topics to stretch our way through dinner or enough intelligent commentary [...]
Valentines Day
February 12, 2010
Well, fellow Man-Cave Dwellers, another Valentine’s Day is upon us. You know if you spend this day in your Man-Cave you will definitely be spending the rest of the year in the dog house. However, if you spend it with your significant other you will also be spending some serious cash. It’s getting to the [...]
Dump The Chump
January 21, 2010
Ladies, still wondering what you can give up or take on for a New Year’s resolution? If you are looking for something that goes beyond the privation of snacking between meals, smoking or other typical self denials, why not consider this: Dump the Chump! As I look around at the couples I see on the [...]
Female Viagra
December 17, 2009
Who knew my crystal ball would be so clear? Last month’s predictions about sexual immortality for women are now just around the corner. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Flibanserin (so new my computer treats it with the same semantic nonchalance as Andropause) or Female Viagra could be on store shelves within two years, according to a [...]
A Warning From The Surgeon General
October 27, 2009
WARNING: Male Menopause may adversely affect the male thought processes and cause episodes of psycho-sexual schizophrenia.” Okay, so Surgeon General Regina Benjamen has not warned us against this phenomenon. Yet, nor has she or the medical community given the same level of consideration to this condition as it does to its female counterpart. (Perhaps they [...]
The Man Cave
October 26, 2009
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the first of a series of scribblings and hieroglyphics from the Man-Cave, the veritable doghouse of this website designed to provide you with insight into the biologically driven and less than complicated world of the male genus. Before going into any of the issues that this section will be dealing [...]