LFS: The Storyteller

©2013 by LeeZard NOTE: The following is the preface for a book unwritten. As many of you know, I am hitting the road (in two weeks!) to seek the personal stories of people across America about how they were changed by The Great Recession. I think the changes are significant and all-encompassing. I will be writing the book - and blogging - along the way. --- This book is about a road trip. No, it’s not just another “On the Road” book because this was not just any road trip. I was seeking answers and I needed to talk to Americans across the country to find them. While the Great Recession is in our collective rear-view mirrors, its affects are not. The recovery for many has been slow and, as I suspected when I started my trip, nonexistent for others. What I do know is the recession changed everything. It changed the way governments govern (and pay to deliver their services), the way businesses, large and small, conduct their business and, most ...

©2009 by LeeZard NAME THAT PRES! Sooner or later the news media hang some kind of nickname or tag on our presidents, sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory. We had “Tricky Dick,” for Richard Nixon or, as a former associate of mine (and former network correspondent in the Nixon White House) used to call him privately, “The Trick of the United States.” I loved it. Bill Clinton was (and is) “Bubba;” Reagan, to some, “The Great Communicator” and, of course there’s “Dubya.”  We had “The Father of our Country” and “The Great Emancipator.” Sometimes their initials were so mediagenic, they became the nickname a la FDR, JFK and LBJ. Which begs the question, Whither Obama? LeeZard doesn’t think the initial thing will work here. BO? That just stinks (sorry, couldn’t resist). Gobama? Sounds like a college football cheer. Baracky? Sounds tacky. What do you think? Drop some suggestions and LeeZard will post ‘em. THE FIRST MOTHER-IN-LAW (TFMIL ) LeeZard collects heroes the same way Dubya collec...