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

 I try to avoid thinking about politics and what's going on, but the witch hunts are becoming serious and ... . Oh, well. Better to just...

 Windy, wet and cold.  And noisy.  Yes,  noisy.  But being topside is better than being below,  so stick it out as long as you can.  Lucky g...

  “People ought to saunter in the mountains -- not hike. Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. ...

  Each day seems to bring some new lurch toward totalitarianism.  I don't understand what's going on at all, or why.  I keep hoping ...

Random notes from deployment: "I love working for Uncle Sam. Lets me know just who I am! If I die in a combat zone, box ...

 I was reading an essay by Theodore Dalrymple,  a thoughtful writer of conservative persuasion, who casually remarked in an aside that once ...

Boulogne, 1973  I was talking with my mother regarding the post I made the other day about her trip where she met my father.  In it I mentio...

I am afraid there will be a moment when you fail me, friend. You will turn slightly away, our eyes will not meet, and out in the field there...

 

My mom met my dad on a ship sailing from Yokohama,  Japan, to Khabarovsk, USSR, in the late summer of 1973.  She had just finished working a...

 Both of them will remember this day for the rest of their lives.