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From the perspective and pen of California Newspaper Publishers Association Gold Medal winning journalist and writer Daryl Fisher, join us as Daryl talks positively about family, friends and the interesting people and places that have shaped his life. He does so with a gentle hand and a quirky sense of humor, drawing on the simple, joy-filled experiences of everyday living. He is interested in personal snapshots, not grand panoramas, although he’s not shy about trying to pass along a few insights into the human condition whenever the opportunity presents itself. Fitting into your busy day, lighthearted views of life around 5 minutes each.
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Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Shopping for New Clothes Can be Pure Torture”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Anyway, over the years, I have found it much easier and less time consuming to simply find one kind of shirt and pants that I like, memorize the size that fits, and every four or five years or so, buy a half-dozen in different colors. It works for me and makes the whole p...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Mikey's Weekly Bath”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Mikey's bathing routine is always the same. To begin with, he somehow knows when it’s bath time, and he immediately goes off and hides. If he hears me say the word `bath’, his eyes grow wide with fear, so I’ve taken to spelling out the letters, rather than using the `B’ word in his presence....
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Few Hints on Avoiding ‘the Bowels of Hell’ ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Well," I said in Don Juan's defense, "maybe the poor guy just never bumped into the right woman?" "Daryl, the man bumped into just about every woman in Spain!" Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://da...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Stay Out of Your Kids' Love Lives”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "As I fumbled around in the utensils-drawer looking for the right sized spoon, I also observed that although my son was continuing to hold the telephone receiver tightly against his ear, he wasn't saying a word." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform o...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Always Wear Your Seatbelt!”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "No, Daryl," said my wife, her expression suddenly anything but loving, "I can't seem to find the car registration, but guess what, I did manage to find these!" She thrust a half-dozen or so bright red condom packages into my hand and added, "Now, would you care to explain what those t...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Christmas During the Great Depression”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "I sat there and tried to picture the looks on my kid's faces if they to were to tear into their Christmas packages this year and find oranges, apples and bananas." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com Supp...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “It Really is a Wonderful Life”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Clarence, George’s guardian angel, who is desperately in need of acquiring his wings, grants George his wish and we begin to see just what a world without George Bailey would have really been like." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at ...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Did Your Love for Someone Ever "Bubble" Over?." Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "It dawned on me that when children reflect back on the lives of their parents, the time frame that comes into play usually begins with their own birth, and more or less covers their years of growing up in their parents’ house. In other words, we really do think of our pa...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Walter - World War I Veteran”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "I bet you think that everyone in their right mind hates war, don't you, Sonny? Well, you're wrong. If everyone hated it, then we'd stop having them, wouldn't we?" Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com #veteran ...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Role Reversal Therapy”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Well," said Woody philosophically, "relationships are a lot like sharks. They either keep moving forward, or they die." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com Support the show
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Women Would Rather Shop Than Have Sex”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "But according to a recent study, given free time `for fun and enjoyment', 52 percent of male `home enthusiasts' prefer working in the yard, gardening and landscaping to having sex." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at http...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: “My Sunday was right out of a Dickens’ novel,” said my friend. “You know, the best of times, and the worst of times. It started out so nice, with my friend Lynn and I taking a fantastic hike out in nature on trails that my father used to love." Listen to all episodes on ...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “How Often Do You Think About Sex? ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "A friend of mine who apparently thinks I am interested in such things recently emailed me an article about how research scientists at Duke University have found out that it’s really not true that men think about sex every seven seconds of every single waking day." ...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Deaf, Blind and Driving”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Almost two winters ago, with the help of a nameless friend with an extremely poor sense of direction, my poor little 21-year-old Toyota pickup truck found itself (with me at the wheel) up to our elbows on a flooded road off of Highway 99." Listen to all episodes on your favorite...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Writing a Romance Novel”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "It says here that a lot of writers are getting rich these days," she said, pointing to the article she was reading. "Do you want to know how they're doing it?" Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com Support the ...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Eddie the Handyman Strikes Again”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Well, to make a long story short, I got Eddie to drive up the next morning and get started on the repairs, only to be called a few hours later at work by my youngest son who said, “Dad, it looks like Eddie hit a main pipe or something with his pickaxe and we’ve got “Old Faithful” goi...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Country Western Romance”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Ma'am, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com Support the show
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “All Gave Some, Some Gave All”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "I came to understand that the real reason almost every new generation goes off to fight in some war far away from home is because many people, men in particular, actually like it. By that I mean that for many men throughout the centuries, starting a war or going off to fight in one...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Have You Ever Been Roto-Rootered?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "I have to be dragged kicking and screaming, having convinced myself long ago that when it comes to medical tests and procedures and surgeries, they usually do as much harm as they do good." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at...
Send a text Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Napoleon & Josephine Didn't Use Deodorants”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Here’s a preview: "Did I ever tell you that I read a book on Napoleon that said every time he was about ready to wrap up a war, the very first thing he would do was send a message all the way back to France to tell Josephine he was on the way home and that he didn't want...
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