Daryl’s Back Pages

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “How to Discipline the Children”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "I soon discovered that what today's teenagers want most in the entire world, other than electronic gadgets, cool clothes and junk food, is extra spending money. However, very few of them ac...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Marriage Vacations”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Now marriage vacations wouldn't just be for husbands," Eddie quickly explained. "No, I don't think that would ever fly. Wives would have to be able to qualify for one, too."  Listen...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are All Men Looky-Loos?”   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: “Don’t men ever figure out how much women hate it when you leer at us? And it starts out really early in our lives, too. In fact, when I first got my boobs in high school, I spent four long years walking arou...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “If You Want to Live Longer, Get Married”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Marriage has a beneficial effect for both men and women, but the effect is much, much stronger for men. In fact, a good marriage is almost like a wonder drug for men."  Listen to a...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Supermarket Flirtations”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Research in Britain has shown that many young people actually prefer meeting members of the opposite sex in supermarkets than in nightclubs. Now don’t get me wrong, nightclubs are still very popular es...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What Was Your Worst Date?"   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "So, I tell him I can only meet him for lunch since I don’t have anyone who can watch my dogs at night. I know that was a pretty lame excuse, but he seemed to buy it and I told him I would leave a...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Old King Arthur Could Sure Spin a Good Tale ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "The monarch decided to mercifully offer Arthur his freedom, but only if he could answer a very hard question. And because of the question’s great difficulty, he told Arthur he woul...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “They're All Back in School”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "So, for more weeks than I care to admit, I have been eagerly waiting to hand my children back over to the overworked and underpaid teachers of our local schools. Each year, almost miraculously,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ The Life of a Combat Medic in Ukraine ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "The job of a wartime medic is inherently dangerous because they are called upon to go to the aid of a wounded soldier who is usually lying in a kill zone, meaning that whoever or whateve...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Are Promiscuous Males Bad Mice or Lousy Rats? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "So, knowing of Jane’s somewhat less-than-lofty opinion of men, when I come across something that just might jerk her chain a little on that subject, I can’t help giving her a cal...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “In the End, Only Kindness Matters”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Whenever Jack would see someone, be they a few feet away or way across the street, he would find a way (with a big smile on his face) to pass along a compliment, or just say something nice th...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are Your Children Financially Literate?” Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "When I was a young boy of about nine or so, my father decided it was time that I begin getting a little taste of what the real world was like, especially in terms of work. "  Listen t...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Back When Having a Decent “move” Counted”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "After I had assured her father (who didn’t look the least bit happy to see me) that I would have his only daughter safely back in less than three hours, we silently climbed...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Snakes and Robbers”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "The plan was simple.  I would just pull into the rest area, turn off the lights and the engine, sprawl out in the front seat of my truck, and call it a night.  It only took me a few minutes, however, to rea...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Daryl the Tugboat Captain”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Knowing John as I do, I was pretty sure he could actually handle the whole thing all by himself and that he was just trying to include me in a little river outing on a beautiful fall morning, but wha...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Rusty the Feral Cat”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "When I opened up my screen door to see if I could be of any help to him, he hissed at me and backed up just far enough to stay out of my reach. When I bent down and began to assure him that I was of no dan...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ The Power of a Single Kiss ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: " The Kiss was published way back in 1887 and its hero is a young army officer named Ryabovich (which means pock-marked or pitted complexion in Russian). Not only is Ryabovich unattractive to women,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Trying to Make Some Sense Out of So Much Suffering" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “You’re saying that the guys who skate through life, the people who don’t do much suffering, the ones who don’t have to die young in a stupid war, the ones who seem to live f...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “  I Bet You Can’t Guess Which Dogs are the Most Aggressive ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "The more I read, the more I began to realize that peoples’ opinions about which dogs are the most aggressive depend almost entirely on their own personal experiences...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Marshmallow Race”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "On the final day of Hell Weekend, all of us pledges, and there were about twelve of us, were required to go out into this huge backyard at the fraternity house and stand next to each other in a straight l...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Mikey's Weekly Bath”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Mikey's bathing routine is always the same. To begin with, he somehow knows when it’s bath time, and he immediately goes off and hides. If he hears me say the word `bath’, his eyes grow wide with...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “My Graduation Speech”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "It would seem that for as long as there has been recorded history, old people (even wise ones) have been convinced that young people were going to screw up the world as they knew it. Yet, for better or wo...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What's Your Best High School Memory?”  Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "No more will they be spending their noon hour in an over-crowded quad or a socially segregated school cafeteria where the cheerleaders, athletes, pseudo-intellectuals, and even the wann...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Awful Roar of Politics”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com  Here’s a preview: "If it's not my mailbox being stuffed with political flyers," said my friend, &quo...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “It Could Have Been Our Kids and Grandkids”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "So, as any sane person should finally get around to asking, why in the hell is such a weapon allowed to be in the hands of any American other than a soldier or police officer?  Well,...