IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY

My family. Stevie Wonder. Writing columns. Putting flowers in my front yard. Listening to oldies radio stations. Bill Cosby. "Pulp Fiction." The Dallas Cowboys. Shaving my head. "Sanford and Son."

Cologne. The National Football League. Lasagna. Digital cable. The way my wife says "really?" Muhammad Ali. Mountain Dew. "Catch-22." The Arkansas Razorbacks. Pam Grier.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The fact that my mother still cooks a lot of food when I go home. Richard Pryor. "Fulfillingness' First Finale." Military ceremonies. Boxer shorts. The interstate highway system. E-mail. My daughter's sense of humor. "The Tom Joyner Morning Show."

Curtis Mayfield's songs. Aretha Franklin's voice. Malcolm X's passion. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dedication. Steely Dan's cool. Marvin Gaye's pain. Dick Gregory's conscience. Tony Kornheiser's wit. The Beatles' brilliance. Bill Clinton's perserverance.

The Los Angeles Lakers. Peanut butter. Tommie Smith and John Carlos. "Patton." Mechanics. Breakfast. Leonard Pitts Jr. "All In The Family." Clean sheets. Country music from the 60s and 70s.

OPENING DAY

I'm just catching up to this blogging thing, so we'll see how this works out.

I love to share opinions and I plan to do so on a daily basis here. There will be a lot of sports commentary since that is my chosen profession but anything is fair game.

I won't keep anyone guessing about the blog title. If you're an 'old-school' person you'll recognize it from the Commodores song "Easy" (That's why I'm easy/Easy like Sunday morning). Several years ago during my time on the copy desk of the Daily Press a supervisor would ask me if I could accomplish a certain task. My response would be some variation of the blog title.

Let's have fun.