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 This site is a retirement hobby for Phil Pash, who wrote for newspapers, big and small, for 50 years. The site--which became fully operational on Oct. 1, 2005--will be ever evolving, but the focus will be on the four columns on this page. Your feedback is welcome, please visit our contact page. The caricature of Phil on this page was drawn by Bruce Lewis of Rockford. You may remember him as Mr. Mustache, and thousands of Rockford-area kids grew up watching him on local TV.
 (The World of Wheels column by Phil Pash first appeared in now-defunct Chicago TODAY in the early 1970s. It was the first year-round motor sports column in a Chicago paper). Sunday, May 31, 2009 (Vol. 5, No. 17) Johnson Wins at Dover; Stewart Takes Cup Point Lead: It's tough to keep a good man down--and when you have the combination of a great car and an excellent driver, it's downright impossible, as Jimmie Johnson proved May 31 in the Autism Speaks 400 Presented by Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips and Cheese at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Restarting eighth on lap 374 of 400, after NASCAR called the 10th caution of the race for David Stremme's hard crash on the frontsretch, Johnson atoned for a slow pit stop and charged through the field to run down Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart and win his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover, his second of the season and the 42nd of his More...
 (Phil has been writing about outdoors since the late 1970s). Sunday, June 28, 2009 (Vol. 5, No. 10)
Numbers of Dead Fish in Rock Could Reach Hundreds of Thousands: Because of rising water levels and hot weather, counting dead fish along the Rock River has been difficult for Illinois fisheries biologists, Jeff Lampe of the Peoria Journal Star reported June 24 and 25. But sources say the count of fish killed along the Rock could reach into the hundreds of thousands. Since Sunday (June 21) folks in Rock River country have been lamenting the deaths of thousands of catfish--some huge flatheads that had lived in the rocky river for 20 years or longer More...
 Sunday, March 29, 2009 (Vol. 4, No. 1) More Than Anything, Dave Johnson Was a Battler: I had been talking to my wife and a nurse who was helping me get ready. Turns out the nurse went to school with our older son, Chris, though a couple of years behind him. "Is that Phil Pash over there?" said a distinctive voice from the other side of a privacy curtain in a pre-op room at Rockford's OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. "Professor?" said I. "You guys know one another?" said a nurse, who slid open the curtain More...
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