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

  North Island Naval Air Station, 1940 My grandparents had not one "our song," but two, both by Frank Sinatra.  Both were from...

 

I used to post entries at the 43 Things website, once considered the best social networking service but now long gone.  I don't fool wit...

My father told me once that when he was about twenty he had a new girlfriend, and once they stopped by the house on the way to somewhere...

This happened before I met your mother: I took Jennie Johanson to a summer dance, and she sent me a letter, a love letter, I guess, even ...

 

McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II I saw this airplane, a McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II, when visiting the San Diego Air and Sp...

 Art you can hear   A more difficult target     This explains why it has become harder and harder for men to take a flying fuck at a rolli...

I’ve been enjoying reading about Linh Dinh's adventures in Laos on his blog, and, more especially, looking at his photographs of the c...

Musso & Franks is a restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood that's been in business seemingly forever.  One of the best stori...

4th of July, 1916, 5th Ave at 17th St., New York City, by Frederick Childe Hassam             Thanks to this ancestor (and others), I am off...

When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day, Just go to a mirror and look a...

      “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...