Creativity....
posted 3 months ago | 11 comments
I really identify with that. And I’m a survivor, too….
I think creativity in our lives is as important as eating. One nourishes the body, the other nourishes the soul. The id. The ego. The identity. The survivor in all of us.
There are as many w...
I think creativity in our lives is as important as eating. One nourishes the body, the other nourishes the soul. The id. The ego. The identity. The survivor in all of us.
There are as many w...
An Ordinary Day??
posted 3 months ago | 7 comments
Today was just a day. Just like any other, more or less. For me, anyway….
Yet, as I think about it, I can’t tell you how many babies were born today. I do know that we have surpassed 7 billion people on this planet…. And I don’t know how many peo...
Yet, as I think about it, I can’t tell you how many babies were born today. I do know that we have surpassed 7 billion people on this planet…. And I don’t know how many peo...
Life in the Slow Lane....
posted 3 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 13 comments
Sometimes, I think the whole world is part of the Department of Redundancy Department (yeah, I meant to write it that way….).
I just finished receiving, reading, and shredding today’s mail. I know that it must be a substitute mail person because ...
I just finished receiving, reading, and shredding today’s mail. I know that it must be a substitute mail person because ...
An Officer and a Gentleman....
posted 3 months ago | 12 comments
It was October, 1929. As the Stock Market crashed, a young man, not quite eighteen, was finishing high school and looking forward to going to Columbia University.
He worked summers, during high school, as a soda jerk. With the fall of Wall Stree...
He worked summers, during high school, as a soda jerk. With the fall of Wall Stree...
Pages of My Life...
posted 3 months ago | 6 comments
So, I’ve been scrapbooking for the past couple of weeks…. Taking all those memories and putting them in a book. Not just any book, but one I have made, myself. Cardboard pages, covered with pretty papers, photos, snippets of poems, and even some o...
More Memories....
posted 3 months ago | 7 comments
Memories abound these days. Clean out the attic, and the closets, and there’s no telling what I will find….
It was a sentimental journey, finding all the old slides. They are now uploaded onto my computer, edited, and shared with the kids. This p...
It was a sentimental journey, finding all the old slides. They are now uploaded onto my computer, edited, and shared with the kids. This p...
First Voyage....
posted 3 months ago | 10 comments
Recently, when cleaning out boxes in the closet, I came across a treasure. No, not savings bonds, or rare coins, or the deed to a gold mine. I found a story written by my father. And hand-written by him in calligraphy….
On the cover, he wrote:
On the cover, he wrote:
Remembering Tony....
posted 3 months ago | 13 comments
He was pale, and frail, and gaunt. His cheeks were red and flat. His huge brown eyes were sad and glazed over, not meeting anyone’s glance. It was late summer and his jeans and shirt were too big for him. He was supposed to start kindergarten in a...
Reconnecting....
posted 4 months ago | 8 comments
There’s something interesting going on in my life. One by one, I have been reconnecting with friends from high school….
A few of them live here in Podunk, but the majority of them have spread to the four corners of the earth. Seattle to Sydney an...
A few of them live here in Podunk, but the majority of them have spread to the four corners of the earth. Seattle to Sydney an...
Up in the Sky....
posted 4 months ago | 9 comments
Today has been an amazing day! I’m back home now, sun-burned, wind-burned, tired and happy. We went to the air show at the nearby Naval Air Station….
I have attended many air shows in the past, but today was special. It is not only the 100th anni...
I have attended many air shows in the past, but today was special. It is not only the 100th anni...
