By Wink High school is over. Your child has now grown wings and is headed off to college. This is a sad, necessary step in life. Letting your metaphorical butterfly go free is never easy. It is even less easy because said butterfly will need stuff. Lots of stuff. Don’t forget to send all of [...]
By Wink Believe it or not we have some pretty steady readers here at W-L. It is for them that we dedicate today’s article. Below are sections from three songs. Try to guess who sang them. The first one is for dear Peggy…. Isaac said he kissed you, beneath the apple tree. When Benji held [...]
By Wink I normally don’t do book reviews. Any I do would probably be dated, because I rarely feel the need to purchase any book the first moment it appears at the bookstore (Harry Potter being the notable exception, of course) I read a lot, but have specialized interests. Most of what interests me, history [...]
So an NCAA panel has decided that, if it were to expand the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, it would create a 96 team format. I understand that this would give me teams a chance to go Dancing, but lets be honest, why do they really want to expand? Short answer: Money. Long answer: MOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY. We [...]
How to Die an Exciting Death By Ike Disclaimer: The Winkest Link is not responsible for the emulation of any actions listed below. These directions are to be heeded at your own discretion. Death is a very touchy subject with most people. They see it as a thing to be feared and pushed away. As [...]
In place of a regular post, we at the Winkest Link have decided that everyone needs something to liven up their day. Here are a few of our favorite quotes, funny or enlightening. “The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.” – Anonymous “Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him [...]
By Wink What is it that makes the super-rich different from us? Do you have ‘what it takes’ to be super rich? I have done some exhaustive research on this topic, and made some startling discoveries. Doubt it if you wish, but statistics never lie, and they tell us that the super-rich… Are Right-handed – [...]
By Wink I grew up surrounded by all kinds of music: big band, pop, soul, country, jazz, blues, classical, metal, disco, and so on. Beatles? Mozart? Hendrix? John Philip Sousa? Aretha? I heard it all, and then some.. The music that still ‘drives’ me, to this day, is rock and roll. But I do have [...]
A huge congratulations to the University of Connecticut (U Conn) women’s basketball team, and their outstanding head coach, whats-his-name. At the beginning of the season U Conn was deemed the best in the nation, and the logical pick to win the national championship. So how did they do? They won all 39 games by double-digits, [...]
I will confess here that I am ‘oldish’ (but not yet old). I have a large collection of record albums that I never got rid of. I just couldn’t let go of these old “friends,” in spite of the fact that I hadn’t played any of them in decades. I have somehow come into possession [...]
