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

  I found this old cap-and-ball revolver in the attic of our ranch house (built in 1881).  It was in a wooden box made with dovetail joints,...

I came across this passage while reading an essay about the author and poet Charles Bukowski: “When Bukowski was 13, one of [his friends] in...

"How long, how long must I regret? I never found my people yet; I go about, but cannot find The blood-relations of the mind." ~ Ru...

    The line is from Millay's poem "Make Bright the Arrows" which is part of a poem cycle in which she dueled with Robinson Je...

 Dear friends and family, Thanks for all you've done for me this year and in years past. I hope I've been able to have done to you i...

 

 These sorts infest the internet, and, I suppose, the world.

   The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of Nineteen Eighteen.  The end of the war to end all wars.  The war to make t...

 

One of my uncles was a pilot with Lebanese International Airways in the late Sixties, flying the Convair 990A, the fastest subsonic airliner...

 

N ovember comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early, And dawn coming la...

It's an evening for dress-up play for kids of all ages, as they say. Fog blew in in the late afternoon, making everything clammy, close ...

 Well, Saturday night we went to a Halloween party that got pretty ... interesting.  It wasn't loud or boisterous.  But there were comin...

 A relic from a country now one with Nineveh and Tyre, existing today in name only.

 A scene from Operation Earnest Will during the forgotten "tanker war" of the mid-1980s. I like this painting.  It reminds me that...

 

 

 

 

 I made this about half a dozen years ago, and back then I really was proud of how far I had come in my personal journey, and what I had ach...

 

 My guy just loves it when I wear his shirts, as I've mentioned in an earlier post, and he loves taking photos of me wearing them, espec...

A reader of this blog (Yes! They exist!) asked me why I picked the name for it that I did.  The reason is pretty simple --  But I'm...