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

 

  Making plans to greet the new decade at a secret rendezvous.  Preparing all sorts of party snacks in advance, some my own in-demand spec...

  And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.     John 1:5

Well, back in the good old days such things existed.  Ah, speak, memory! Home-made gingerbread cookies, candy canes, fruitcake and pumpkin ...

Just each other for Christmas                            

  And when life's sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends; No quarrels, murmurs, no delay; A kiss, a sigh, and so away. Go...

The only member of my family who I know was at Pearl Harbor  when the Japanese attacked was a great uncle who was serving with the coast a...

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Above the marge of night a star stil...

 

  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...