Rick Halm:  

Being three score and two, an invitation to join the AARP, and nursing a devastating knee injury suffered while playing a game of pick-up Basketball, life is often as difficult to embrace as it is for my pants to fit my expanding waistline after indulging in one too many Pizzas. Yet, as I look back on my life, I am only in the middle. Between birth and the greatest unanswered question posed to the human race, will there be Social Security benefits for the baby boomers, and will there be enough room in the sun belt states for all the aging bodies? I was born the fifth of seventh children right after Elvis recorded his first big smash. A week later Don Larsen would pitch a perfect game in the World Series, and a month later our 34th President would win his second term. Perhaps in a subliminal fashion I was influenced. I have a passion for music, competitive sports and politics. As a suburban youngster I engaged in typical rituals, watching reruns of idiot ...Expand for more