During the Summer of the first year of my newly painted ORANGE ROOM, I was 14 years old. Do you remember being 14 years old? A 14 year...

Christmas time...the most wonderful time of the year!! That statement certainly rang true when I was a boy. My 63 year old brain is...

Are you sitting comfortably in my Orange Room? Let me turn down the lights and offer you a refreshment......ready? Let's go back to 1993....

Hello and welcome back to the yellow shag carpet and black bean bag chair here in my Orange room. Get comfortable and I'l light some...

They say that no bond is closer than family and I can certainly attest to this declaration. Before Orange Rooms and guitars, I shared a...

By this time, the band chaperones were constantly hovering over my new found soul brothers and myself. One particular night, Mrs Harris...

The next day of our band trip to Florida was going to be epic!!!! Walt Disney World!!! This would be my first visit to the happiest place...

All was looking good that first night in Florida! My two new friends and I bonded and looked forward to starting a band when we returned...

As I write this blog in October of 2022, SW Florida was just recently hit with basically, a category 5 hurricane wiping out most of Ft...

Before there were orange bedrooms and electric guitars, there were years of normalcy...if you can call our house normal. Along with my...

It's the year 2022 and the people of Earth have yet to begin wearing silver suits or traveling by spaceship as promised in the TV...

What is more American than a small town carnival complete with corn dogs, lemonade, livestock and of course, a mid way full of neon lit...

The Bartonville State Hospital or ……The Illinois Asylum Of The Incurable Insane, was a psychiatric hospital operated by the State of...

For the past several years, while working for PNC Bank, I would tell my customers and fellow employees that I was going to snowbird after...

Welcome back to the ORANGE ROOM. Pull up a bean bag chair and I'll light some incense. Today's Tale From The Orange Room comes many years...

Good day and welcome to the ORANGE ROOM. Pull up a bean bag chair and I'll light some incense. It's raining today in South West Florida...

While growing up in Mardell Manor, our next door neighbors had three children. The middle kid was the exact age as me and even had the...

Welcome to the cozy confines of the ORANGE ROOM dear readers. This is my first post of 2022 and the new year finds us in NORTH PORT...

How does one measure Christmas Spirit? Is it something that can be placed on a shelf or decorated with tinsel? Can you hold it or is it...

Well, hello Orange Room dwellers! It’s Christmas time again and today’s Tale from the Orange Room is a short one that comes from the far...