Even as I’ve aged to half of a century, one thing remains with my heart and soul. I still want to belong. I still want purpose and I still want to make a difference.

At the end of 2020, my wife and I bought her dream car, a 2021 Jeep Wrangler. Within hours of posting our new purchase online, two different Jeep clubs in the surrounding Charlotte, NC Metro found us on Facebook and invited us to join.

We did.

In 1988, when I could barely rub two nickels together, not because of my lack of finger dexterity, but due to being income challenged as I chased the radio dream, I bought my first car, a Ford Festiva. One time, another Festiva was driving next to me, and while we smiled due to the commonality, there was an air of embarrassment as well, as we were probably both flooring it, and not getting anywhere too quickly in our undersized 4-cylinder vessel.

She was only 10 years old, unassuming, on her way to school, a typical day for young Jenn Bostic whose dad was at the wheel. Nobody could have known that mere car lengths ahead in the upcoming intersection, life would let go like a truckload of lemons whose pallets gave ...

It’s hard to believe that this year will make ten years that have passed since NYC’s DJ Megatron, Corey McGriff was gunned down in a senseless crime near his apartment on Staten Island in March of 2011. A month had passed since his tragic murder and my desk phone ...

There have been words and phrases that have simmered on the outside of the mainstream, until those words gain enough saturation to reach critical mass; and usually critical mass isn’t reached until those words have made their way through the broadcast industry. There ...

Sincerity is that thing that most people’s intuition will pick up on. Sometimes a person who has been mind-screwed over many situations in life, like a child whose parents weren’t forthcoming, or the most common, a wife whose man cheats or lies, and successfully ...

We’re in the absolute, most sensitive time in society. When President Trump held a Bible in his hands for a photo op, I wrote a simple post on Facebook. “Don’t be fooled or impressed by a man because he holds a Bible, but instead, be the man who holds the WORD on ...

In 1993, The Tampa Bay Times was about to do a three-page spread on the arrival of night jock, Bubba The Love Sponge in Tampa at 93.3 WFLZ. At the same time, Bubba and ‘FLZ late night talent, Tom Steele were having a nightly on-air feud. Bubba was such an impactful ...

Tom Hanks had the virus, but these words aren’t about that, nor is it about him, but instead, it is about how being prepared for other things could have you prepared for this attack of the coronavirus. As a joke, a man is selling a 4” x 4” square of toilet paper for ...

“They don’t give a $h!# what kind of coffee you drink,” one of my bosses said, as he addressed the entire radio staff in a meeting. He was attempting to say that the mundane things about you don’t matter to your audience. One well known morning show coach ...

It has been said that, "when you help others figure out their dreams that your dreams will come true in the process." I don't especially love musicals, but I saw this one about a guy named Joseph, who you'd know by the many colors of his coat and this Joseph spends ...