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

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools, singing ...

 I was a CACO for a while.  Because of my educational background and training, I was expected to be especially good at it.  I tried.  It was...

Taking a look back .  The time goes so fast. Wednesday, December 31, 2008 ...

 

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 I chat with her about as often as I do with anyone. I ask her questions. I even argue with her. She ex...

Paean to a once and future country.

“I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw ...

 Overheard:   "... and that's why I went to jail wearing a carbide lamp."  When I was crossing the border into Canada they ask...

Watching the ships sail away, Yokohama harbor, 1966. I made a post about a Japanese woman my family knew who was born in Mukden and ended ...

One of my older relatives was what he called a “newsman” for 40 years, working on a city daily. He never went to college let alone got a deg...

I detect a pattern...   I don't know what a "tradesperson" is. It sounds British.  But I ain't no tradesperson.  Totally ...

 

T onight we find them again, parked under the stars (no one ever eats inside in Heaven), beeping the tired carhop with her pageboy...

“I don’t think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things,’ he said gravely. He hesitated. ‘It’s very difficult to put i...

F irst job. In tight black shorts and a white bowling s...

 As I've written, the big band era is one of my favorite times in recent history, and I read pretty much everything I can find about it....