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Bernie blew his bugle while I toted cymbals
Bill Mead, Columnist Emeritus|Oct 1, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, March 2014 issue. A few weeks ago I had lunch with Bernie, a fellow I grew up with back in Iowa. We both came to California in the World War II Navy although not together. Neither of us went back to the cornbelt. The similarity ends there because Bernie's career over the intervening decades has been more noteworthy than mine. Among other things, Bernie was among those who invented the...
An Expecting Grandpa Who's Still Nonchalant About Newborns
Bill Mead, Columnist Emeritus|Sep 3, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, March 2013 issue As I have mentioned before, two of our daughters are expecting babies, one of them due within the next week. My wife is getting choked up about the imminent arrival of Debbie Morrison’s baby, our first grandchild. My wife is also getting set to choke me up because of my noncommittal attitude about this tribal milestone. The truth is, I have a hard time establishing a m...
Drugs and dogs are a bad combo
Bill Mead, Columnist Emeritus|Aug 20, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, July 2014 issue. I’ve complained before that our house is turning into a pharmaceutical warehouse. Between my wife and me, we take a total of 13 pills daily. Mine are to lower my blood pressure, slow my heartbeat, dissolve cholesterol, thin my blood and increase my vitamin intake. After the nightly news, I occasionally take a tranquilizer. One of my wife’s pills is to lower her blo...
Recalling the Famous 'Battle of Palmdale'
Bill Mead|Jul 23, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi News, November 4, 2007 issue. I have taken it upon myself to appoint Dan Ingram the Clown Prince of Tehachapi. I mean that as a compliment. Several times a week Betty and I receive humorous and heart-warming messages from Dan that never fail to brighten our days. Last week he recalled the epic Battle of Palmdale which most people are too young to remember and which I had nearly forgotten. This episode bega...

Nothing can Get in the Way of the Next Meal
Bill Mead|Jul 9, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, April 2014 issue. I never thought I was fixated on food until my daughter Maggie's husband, Arch, expressed dismay over our family's tendency to discuss the dinner menu while still eating lunch. That's pretty much how everybody was during my growing-up years in the cornbelt. Partly that was because grocery stores didn't sell a lot of ready-to-cook meals back then. Nearly everything had...
The news about healthful diets gets confusing
Bill Mead, Columnist Emeritus|Jan 9, 2016
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, January 2013 issue. Since I was told I have heart disease I have tried to fine tune my diet so that my arteries don't clog up so fast. I'm beginning to think it's an exercise in futility, not because I can't control my eating habits but because the experts can't seem to agree on what got me into this fix in the first place. It all seemed so simple when somebody discovered cholesterol...