Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 17

Happy Friday, News Viewers — I see Kentucky hasn’t changed much in my absence…… I can’t believe life just went on, (you mean life doesn’t revolve around me?) it did its normal maskless, exhaley, socially MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

On April 23, 1971 — yes, 50 years ago today — the world received an interesting gift of music and art with the release of Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones. My BFF and I MORE

The Lounge

Free Chat: Monday Moanin’

News Views has tried to provide a free chat outlet for Mondays, and apologies for the late entry……….but here’s a spot to exercise your First Amendment freedumbs. Whether you want to talk about the weather, MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Some new music has been slowly dribbling out this spring, which has me looking around more on Spotify — browsing for release dates and some promising, hopeful additions to approaching patio evenings with a bluetooth MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

National Pet Day, April 11, 2021 Happy Pet Day, one day late, where we celebrate all things pet and pet adjacent. We have the expected pets pictured but as we know, people love animals, and MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Living through a pandemic for over a year has given me an opportunity to begin appreciating more wine, and I’m fortunate enough to have a four generation family winery near me whose delivery drivers are MORE

Last Call

Last Call: April 03, 2021

What a lazy day. That’s what happens when you get together with folks (my son and the daughter in law I like) you haven’t hung out with in a few months. But, now that they’re MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

It was Opening Day for baseball yesterday, and as Michiganders have been known to refer to it before, it was Sno-pening Day. If the thought of bundling up with your cold beer and hot dog MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 13

Happy Friday, News Viewers…… it’s 7ish in the morning, and I overslept…..I woke up to the sound of……..wait, there is NO sound…..meaning for the first time in several days, the wind has stopped blowing. This MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: Just enjoy

We put up several free chat style threads, like this one, throughout the week to let you guys just talk. What I’m asking that you don’t do is ‘just talk’ on threads that are not MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

When it comes to animals, kids and books, what do we know? According to Axios, information from a new online tool called Epic gives us information. “Children prefer owls to chickens and chickens to hedgehogs. Kids MORE

Last Call

Last Call: March 27, 2021

Seriously? It’s almost April? Wow—the year is flying by. They seem to do that the older we get. Anyway, I want to address a few house cleaning issues. Let me start by first saying, thank MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

A few weeks back in Black History Month we visited the Blue Front Cafe and listened to some juke joint blues with a simple man named Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. This video was shared in 2010 MORE