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

      “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”  “It is only with the heart that one...

 The 1950s were a curious cultural blend.  On the one hand, the decade was the era of the organization man and conservative fashion, epitomi...

"I was thinking that I like knowing that a guy complimented your ass."    "When I saw that guy trying to pick you up, I di...

A grandfather's jotted memories --        (A division is four airplanes divided up into two elements of two airplanes):  First comba...

 

... through others' minds...  “But as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.”...

 Well, it was fun while it lasted. All good things come to an end.  But we can remember them all, at least for a little while longer.  Just ...

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 ...