If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

   I've been listening to a lot of old love songs recently.  They have simple sweet lyrics and simple, sweet music.  I find myself singi...

    W hen civilization has long collapsed, the Warring States era has come and gone leaving strontium-90 and cesium-137-salted ashes where...

     

  I n 1937, the median American household income was $723, the average, according to the Social Security Administration, was $890. That'...

S ome claim the origin of song was a war cry. Some say it was a rhyme telling the farmers when to plant and reap. Don't they know the fi...

  And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly...

  A Ranger SBD dive bomber flying over a Norwegian fjord. The USS Ranger spent almost all its wartime career in the Atlantic and ...

W e were sitting outside idling the day away and my mind, unhinged as usual, became filled with stray thoughts. I don't have any tattoos...

                         The Last Things I'll Remember by Joyce Sutphen The partly open hay barn door, white frame around the darkness, ...

  J oan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy in Rouen, France, on this date in 1431 during the Hundred Years War between France and Eng...

 E very Memorial Day, 3,055 flags are placed at Asan Memorial Beach Park in Guam to commemorate each individual civilian and serviceman w...

  T he more I read various posts and comments on Substack and elsewhere, the more I realize how little in common I have with these writers a...

W hen I was in southern California, I liked the nights when the Santa Ana winds blew.  The breeze was like black velvet sliding across my sk...

  C onsidering that the new pope hails from Dolton, Ill., I thought I'd repost my blog entry from May 12, 2023.  I'd thought about r...