dean balog

Let’s try talking instead of writing.

Okay, I’m not overlooking that I’m quite nearly 60 years old and that my view is somewhat prejudiced, but politics in this country have gotten truly weird over the last few years. I realize that my politics are quite a bit left of center (I was truly irritated that people were calling Obama a socialist. … Read more

Okay, this was probably late summer of 1972, maybe early September. I was riding along in an old yellow VW bug with Dave Schlutz. Dave was a friend of my “uncle” Dave. Dave was another unique character. The VW was a unique character itself. Â I think it was a ’64 bug.  Several people in … Read more

One of the problems I’ve got writing these things is that I sometimes forget whether or not I’ve told the story before, so please forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. During my senior year at Cloverleaf High School, I took several classes simply to fill out the schedule. Among them as “Interior Decorating”. … Read more

I believe I have seen every “teen movie” made during the 1980’s. Â John Hughes made money on me. It was a little weird, I mean after all I was in my late 20’s and early 30’s when those movies came out. I was married, for the second time, and had kids.I had a real … Read more