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 This site is a retirement hobby for Phil Pash, who wrote for newspapers, big and small, for more than 50 years. The site became fully operational on Oct. 1, 2005. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the focus is on the Up & Down the Rock column, the World of Wheels and the Great Outdoors. Your feedback is welcome; please visit our contact page, or send an e-mail to phil@philpash.com.
The caricature of Phil on this page was drawn by the late Bruce Lewis of Rockford. You may remember him as Mr. Mustache, and thousands of Rockford-area kids grew up watching him on local TV.
 Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 (Vol. 5, No. 1) Veterans Day Is Nov. 11; Time To Remember the Veterans in Your Family: I was sent a lovely e-mail earlier this year by a woman in Phoenix, Ariz. Tamara Wiren thanked me for a column I first wrote in 2004 and have posted on this Web site every year since as a tribute to veterans ahead of their day on Nov. 11. The column is about my cousin, Guilford J. Ruman, who served in the Navy during World War II. He was on a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and according to a newspaper clipping I still have, Guilford owed his life to a shipmate. More...
 (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). Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 28) Could Travis Kvapil Be Doing Double Duty in 2011?--There are several reports former NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Travis Kvapil of Janesville, Wis., will replace Mike Skinner as driver of the Randy Moss Motorsports truck entry, presumably while still driving for Front Row Motorsports in the Sprint Cup Series. Kvapil's Web site had nothing about either report. ..... Skinner, also a former truck champ, is saying little about published reports he has been released by Randy Moss Motorsports with a year remaining on his contract. Skinner told Sirius NASCAR Radio's Sirius Speedway with Dave Moody only, "I still have a contract with More...
 (Phil has been writing about outdoors since the late 1970s). Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 21) New Governor Walker Names Cathy Stepp To Head Wisconsin DNR--Governor-elect Scott Walker has named Cathy Stepp as incoming Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said Paul A. Smith of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Stepp, of Racine County, served as a state senator from 2003 to 2007 and as a member of the Natural Resources Board from 1998 to 2001. She has also helped run businesses with her husband, including a home-building company. "I strongly believe job creation and environmental protection can be mutually supportive," Stepp said in a statement released Dec. 30 to DNR staff. "As a small More...
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