Today's Story From the Orange Room takes place in the Summer of 1986. It had been many years since I left the glorious ORANGE ROOM...my...

While I was still living in the ORANGE ROOM, I played in a traveling Rock Band called Maiden Cane. Perhaps some of you readers would...

Let me say ON RECORD for this Tales From The Orange Room blog, that I respected my father and loved him very much. I'm sure he loved me...

I had only recently moved out of THE ORANGE ROOM, my bed room in my parents home in Bartonville Il. I was now working at Bergner’s...

As a teenager in the ORANGE ROOM, I always fantasized that I could be a songwriter someday. I had actually written a couple little songs...

Back in the 1970's, when days were psychedelic, I hung out with friends, listened to music, did homework and slept in THE ORANGE ROOM. It...

When a marriage is failing and heading for a divorce, It just doesn't happen all at once. There are months and sometimes years of...

Today's tale from the ORANGE ROOM, takes us back to the Summer of 1977. I was spending my time between my part time job and the band in...

There is a famous saying that goes, " You're born into this world alone and you leave this world alone." Most of us crave companionship...

My White Album cost $7.99 and I still have it.

It's September 10th, 2021 and tomorrow will be the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Tomorrow also would be my son's 29th birthday. Today's Tales...

I was 20 years old and had only recently moved out of the ORANGE ROOM. The ORANGE ROOM had been my bedroom when I lived at home with my...

Hello dwellers of the ORANGE ROOM. Have a seat in my black vinyl beanbag chair and I'll light some incense. Today's tale takes us back to...

My Mom was 18 when she married Dad. He was 20. As my Mom put it, "we went from children to playing adults. We had hardly dated...

Not long before my Mother passed in January of 2020, we were discussing parenting and how much things have changed since I was a...

When I worked for Bank One, I always looked forward to the annual sales trip. Today's Tale From The ORANGE ROOM comes from Dallas Texas....

I was 18 and still living at my parents house in my ORANGE ROOM. The past summer was full of joy and extreme pain. I had graduated high...

Today's Tale From The Orange Room, finds us in Nashville Tennessee around the year 2000. Many years had passed since the Psychedelic days...

Back in my ORANGE ROOM, I would repeatedly listen to The Beatles White Album over and over. One of my favorite songs was Helter...

Welcome readers of the Orange Room! It's July 2021 and I find myself 62 and RETIRED!!! I'm as shocked as anyone by the fact that I was...