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

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Friday, December 12, 2025

Encore

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  This is an encore post from November 7, 2021. The Train Stops   The bond between a father and daughter never breaks, but it can hurt each ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

What scares me

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  F ound on Tumblr some years ago and just rediscovered.  It was written by a girl identified only as Taylor:   "A lot of people ask me...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Bridge of Time

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  The Wedding Vow by Sharon Olds I did not stand at the altar, I stood at the foot of the chancel steps, with my beloved,  and the minister ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Thinking About War on Veteran's Day

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  Wa r is something every man I have ever known was deeply interested in. Why?       Calm and full the ocean under the cool dark...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Sometimes you play the game and lose, and that's just how it goes.

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  "I've got 5 contacts in my phone that will never call me again. Friends, colleagues, associates that have all lost their lives i...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

A thought or two...or three

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T he other day I bad-mouthed my stateside magnet high school and, thinking about it, one reason I was not fond of it was that it didn'...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Almost Heaven

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The Cheat River in Preston County in the Allegheny Highlands. I g ot an invitation to join a gathering of descendants of William Hebb.  I...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Les jours s'en vont, je demeure

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A lot has happened to me in the last 17 years, but I'm still me and in the deep core of me I still think and feel and believe just as I ...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

My philosophy of life

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  "All we know is that life is sweet and that it does not last long. Why should people be envious of each other? Why do we hate each ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Fate? Luck?

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  I was thinking about bad marriages, reminding myself how lucky I am to be in a good one and not to screw it up, when I remembered a woman...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Future talk

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"Nothing has concerned man longer or more consistently than the future. Before we could write, perhaps even before we could talk, we sc...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

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 Confederates by Neal Bowers My father was only two in 1915 when he sat on Walter Denton's lap and heard the old man dragging in his hea...

Maybe my home town...?

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  S o, outside of Japan, where did I spend a lot of my childhood?  Where did I enjoy my life the most? Guam!  I'm still a Guambat at hea...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

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  I Meet My Grandmother in Italy by Katrina Vandenberg I find her where I least expect her, Santa Marguerita, with yellow roses in her hair....
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Uh oh

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I'm in trouble now! R eading through blog and substack posts, twitter feeds and all that, I realize that not only do I have nothing in c...
Monday, October 6, 2025

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  The Continuous Life by Mark Strand What of the neighborhood homes awash In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes, Watching the...
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