By Dave Bates Contributing writer As a young heathen roaming the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, I spent a fair amount of time with a bow and arrow in hand. Most of what I learned was either self-taught (and not very successfully I might add) or was gleaned from limited experiences with ...
The blind date was sinking fast – already about a 2 on the scale of 1-to-10, so the comment didn’t really ruin anything. But really, the nerve of this guy. That I don’t remember his name further confirms the whole “meh” feeling. “You don’t do your nails?” he said. I ...
Q. The Olympics are over and I’m bored. I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s not really that the Olympics are over as much as my parents monitor my social media use on my phone and Chromebook. And I’m allowed to watch only the TV they approve – which is how I got so into the ...
The coach in him always comes out. Occasionally, it’s evident during an excitable outburst while his broadcast partner continues to describe basketball game action to radio and livestream audiences. The competitor and loyalty to the "home team" leads to some disagreements with an official's ...
While fantasizing about the Mega Millions with an old friend, I said, “I’d be the millionaire who people wouldn’t know was a millionaire, like I’d be rich, but I’d still be in the jeans I had on since Tuesday.” While I have plenty of slacks, corduroys, sweat pants, and shorts, I ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter Over the years, I have heard stories from farmers and landowners that were scarcely fathomable; stories that sounded so ridiculous that I thought there’s no way that could be true. But then I thought of some of my own accounts and felt that ...
