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Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ No One Really Likes to Exercise all by Themselves ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "I had this incredible, crazy dream last night that is still messing with my head, and I need someone to help me figure it out.”   Listen to all episodes on your favorite podc...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Given a Choice, When Would You Have Liked to Have Been Alive? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "You can definitely count me out when it comes to being alive during the Middle Ages."   "How come?" I asked with interest.   "No hot showers,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Are You a Packrat, too? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "In Vietnam, I was the only guy I knew in the entire First Infantry Division who carried his old high school baseball glove with him on every mission. It probably would have been of little help to me i...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Have You Ever Dreamed About Being Rich? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "As the  years went by with you reporting a terrifying dream almost every morning of your adolescent life, it finally dawned on me that the unconscious you is best left not discussed in...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ What Kind of Sense of Humor do You Have? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "I found myself wondering about why it is that people living in different parts of the world often have very different senses of humor. "  Listen to all episodes on your favorite...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ My Son Gets a Ticket for Being a “smartass” ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “You have a recording of the officer saying he had come back to give you a ticket because of something you had said to him 30 minutes earlier?”   “I sure do. His exact words were that he...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Me and My Shadow".   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "One night my friend came home from work and found an obese black Labrador retriever (I'll call him Lucky) sound asleep on the front porch. Noticing that Lucky had a big smile on his face and suspect...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Some Things Never Really Change" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:   "I had always thought that the most war-like Indians who had ever inhabited the North American Continent were the Apaches and the Sioux and even the Blackfeet, but according to Gwynne,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ The Origins of Old Sayings ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   “I mean, do you think there was once a bunch of Indians sitting around a campfire really enjoying some great weather late in the year and they just decided to name it after them?”  Listen to all episod...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ You Don’t Need Viagra; You Need Theater Tickets ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "Viagra may help millions of men, and even some women, but it is not a sexual cure-all. It is not an aphrodisiac; it will not work in the absence of desire. In fact, there are s...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Professional Trackers Need to Watch Where They Step ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "Up ahead, our point squad leader suddenly thrust a clinched fist high into the air, mercifully bringing our 30-man Aero Rifle Platoon to an unexpected halt. He and his gang...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “  A Quick Way to Get Over Pneumonia ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "They always had us running around outside in that awful weather, doing endless physical fitness drills, and marching from one place to another, not to mention the really long hikes and over...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ A Good Work Ethic is a Cherished Possession ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:  "Every piece of linen she washed sparkled like polished silver. Every piece was also neatly ironed, yet she charged no more than the others. And laundering was not easy in those da...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Television Commercials for Guys”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Every time I turn on the television, especially if it’s a sporting event I want to watch, there’s nothing but wall-to-wall Viagra and Cialis ads, you know, the ones where some not quite over-th...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Do You Remember Your First Kiss? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “Well, as I understand it, a little girl in his class more or less made Riley her boyfriend, although he was apparently a very willing conquest.”   Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast p...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Candy Crime”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Two burly men in black suits grabbed us and unceremoniously yanked us back into the store.  Then they rushed us up a flight of stairs and deposited us in chairs in a little tiny room where they had apparently been...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Real Travelers Go to Victorville ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “Well, when I was about your age, the U.S. Army sent me halfway around the world to visit Vietnam for a year. Does that count?”   “Sure, it does.”   “I don’t know,” I said, thinking back to the new...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Books are Always a Great Christmas Gift ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "As the years have gone by, I have counted my blessings and quietly resigned myself to receiving socks, ties, shirts, and other kinds of “clothes” for Christmas."   Listen to all...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Maybe Sisyphus Has Something to Teach Us All" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "Sisyphus, however, finally got in a little over his head when he tried to stop Zeus from kidnapping a woman he was celestially interested in, and Zeus immediately sent Death...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Beauty of Childbirth”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "I nodded my head in agreement, but silently thanked God for putting women in charge of giving birth, and men in charge of such things as changing the oil in the car or cleaning out the rabbit cage.&qu...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Prostitute Pedicure”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:   “That doesn’t look like a prostitute to me,” said my editor with surprising conviction.   “And since when do you know what a prostitute looks like?” I asked with a smile.  Listen to all episodes on your favori...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Remembering Sergeant Jim Gratton ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "I tried to tell Jim how much I appreciated all he had done for me while I was in his squad, but he would have none of it. Like any combat soldier who has seen war for what it really is, he k...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What a Real Winter is Like!”   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: “You know,” I said, “where I live here in West Sacramento, about the only thing I really do for winter is start closing the front door during the day instead of just using the screen door.”  Listen to all...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Maybe Unwanted Hair Should Just be Left Alone”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:    “So,” said my friend, already smiling “this recently divorced lady with young kids decided it was about time for her to stop moping around the house and start doing some dating. So,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ The Seven Words Which Many Men Fear ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.    Here’s a preview:   “My purse has actually evolved into more of a suitcase,” the nice lady explained to me over the phone, “and would you like to hear just some of the things I carry in it?”   Listen to all episod...