Check This Out. . .
posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
Good-Bye, George. Have a crappy day!
posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
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The world is a darker place today. I got to see George Carlin twice during his long career in comedy, both times in Portland, Maine. The first show was hilarious, t...
The world is a darker place today. I got to see George Carlin twice during his long career in comedy, both times in Portland, Maine. The first show was hilarious, t...
Lest We Forget. . .
posted about 1 year ago, updated 16 minutes later | 2 comments
Monday, May 26th, is Memorial Day, a federal holiday set aside as a day of remembrance for all those who have made the supreme sacrifice in service to their country. Originally called Decoration Day, Memorial Day began as a day to honor Union and ...
Good-Bye, Old Friend. . .
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
We lost another of "the great ones" a couple of days ago. I'll never think of this time of year in quite the same way without Dan Fogelberg.
The first song of his I recall being aware of was "Same Auld Lang Syne." Oddly enough, it's not a pleasan...
The first song of his I recall being aware of was "Same Auld Lang Syne." Oddly enough, it's not a pleasan...
Thanksgiving Anniversaries
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
WHEW!! It's been a while. . .
Anyway, Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Bird-zilla is sitting in the fridge waiting to be doused in brine and roasted to a lovely golden brown. Fresh bread has been baked and turned into stuffing cubes to be crammed into b...
Anyway, Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Bird-zilla is sitting in the fridge waiting to be doused in brine and roasted to a lovely golden brown. Fresh bread has been baked and turned into stuffing cubes to be crammed into b...
For Pvt. G.H. Brown, Sr. & Others
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
In Flanders Fields
IN Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We liv...
IN Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We liv...
Happy Anniversary
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
This weekend, I'm celebrating not one, but two, important anniversaries. And, oddly enough, they both happened on the same day, the 24th.
Six years ago, on May 24th, I married the woman I've come to realize is truly the love of my life. After my ...
Six years ago, on May 24th, I married the woman I've come to realize is truly the love of my life. After my ...
The Selling of America
posted over 2 years ago, updated 17 minutes later | 3 comments
Another member's recent blog post has set me thinking again. She writes of her concerns that we, as a nation, have sold ourselves out, that the out-sourcing of our jobs & the proliferation of free trade has somehow destroyed the fabric of this...
Memories, I have memories. . .
posted over 2 years ago, updated 9 minutes later | 5 comments
Yep, I have memories. . .and sometimes I wish I didn't remember some things as clearly as I do. Take today's memory. Even though it happened 21 years ago, I still remember every detail, even the smells of bacon frying and coffee brewing, and the a...
Last Christmas
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
One year ago today, I was starting the second leg of what would prove to be the most difficult journey of my life to this point. I was scheduled for my second surgery on Dec. 20th; on the 19th, I was supposed to check into the James Cancer Hospita...
