Daryl’s Back Pages

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Granny's Old Home Remedies”.   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 you had an upset stomach, then Granny would immediately boil up a p...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “An Update From Ukraine”.   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: "It’s almost like we are living in a never-ending movie that resembles a thriller, horror film,...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Ken the Commie Hater”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "When I was finally allowed to get off the bus, I soon found myself among a dozen or so of the more vocal demonstrators. They were carrying assorted signs and chanting, among other things, "Hell no, w...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Hanging Out in a Cemetery Can be a Lot of Fun ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "If you go down to Southern California there are a bunch of Forest Lawn cemeteries that are the final resting place of lots of famous people like Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Buster...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “September 7, 1969”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "Just when I had convinced myself that I wasn't dead and everything was probably going to be okay, my whole lower back went on fire, as if someone was branding me with a red-hot metal poker. I reached aro...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Don't Put all Your Eggs in Your Kids' Baskets”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “I think most of us parents think we have a whole lot more to do with how our children turn out than we actually do, especially when it comes to their personalities.” Listen to...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Did Your Love for Someone Ever "Bubble" Over?."   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "It dawned on me that when children reflect back on the lives of their parents, the time frame that comes into play usually begins with their own birth, and more or l...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “I May Have Found My Dream Job”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:  "Awhile back I was trying to figure out which online news story I wanted to click on first when off on the far right-hand side of the screen I happened to notice the words, “AOL Love and Sex Coach...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A $20 Putt Which was Worth Much More Than That”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "If you really think back on it, whether your child turned out to be loud or quiet, funny or serious, out-going or introspective, a great joy to be around or a pain in the butt, he...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Do Creepy, Crawly Critters Freak You Out?”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   "I'm like Diane Keaton in that old Woody Allen movie where she called him in the middle of the night to come over to her apartment and kill a spider," explained my friend. &...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Be Careful with that Engagement Ring”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: Wanna guess what Bryan has gone and done now?” my brother asked me the other night over the telephone.   “What?” I asked with interest, sure that whatever it was, I would end up laughing.  Liste...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Few Hints on Parenting”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here's a preview: "To tell you the truth," I said, "if I actually knew all the things my kids were up to, I'd probably have a stroke. Mercifully, most of the time, all four of them manage to keep me pre...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Buzzy the Businessman”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: “Hey, California boy,” said Buzzy late one evening, sticking his oversized head into my hootch, “you interested in an advanced showing?”   “Advanced showing of what?” I asked him with suspicion.   “Come on,” he s...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Gays in the Military”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: "Jake harangued me with his intolerance for just about every minority group imaginable for about a week, but he always saved his most venomous words for gays, especially gays in the military." Listen to...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Who Taught You How to Drive a Car”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     “You were more or less a Nazi,” explained my middle son when he recently described my driver training techniques.   “But you’ve never been in an accident, have you?” I reminded him. Listen to all episodes on your fav...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Hattie”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: “Back when I was young, if you took a package or something over to a white person’s house, you always had to be sure to go to the back door. If you forgot and went to the front door, you were liable to get hit – and...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Army’s Respect for Higher Education”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview:  "Excuse me, Sergeant," I finally said as politely as I could, worried that if I wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom soon my first act as a soldier was going to be a pretty disgu...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Bird Poop”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: “For a woman, a car is only a means for getting from point A to point B. It’s a machine, like a washer or lawn mower, nothing more. We are not fanatical about keeping them clean and po...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Cruising With Louis”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: " I’m afraid I have this long history of getting lost. Once, when I was walking point in Vietnam, I got a whole platoon lost in a bunch of triple-canopy jungle and some of the guys were sure we had marched all...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “All Work is Honorable”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: “But maybe the most important lessons of all were the ones I learned as a Sacramento Bee Boy, which was my first real job from the ages of about 10-13. Back then there was no more sought-after part-time job than...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are You Hugging Your Kids Often Enough?”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.  Here’s a preview: “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”  – Ann Hood Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at ht...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Night Worth Forgetting”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: "I want you to look down there and tell me what you see," said Lippy with a devilish smile, pointing down below the car radio. "Go on. Check it out." "I don't see anything,"...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Lady Stole My Truck”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: "What? A woman stole my truck?" Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Looking Like Mr. Spock”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: “I could hardly wait each week to hear the words, "Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise, its mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new ci...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Bev and Clare”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.  Here’s a preview: “I, of course, made every effort not to eavesdrop on them, but unfortunately, my ears refused to tune them out. In fact, I tried so hard not to hear them that I suffered from ear strain for days afterwards.” Listen to all...