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

 Different parental roles: My mom taught me how to read and write, including cursive, before I started kindergarten.  She did that by givin...

Elvis, The King, having a great time in the Army     Thinking about the old America my parents grew up in. It seems like a dream now.  It mu...

From 1939:  Also from 1939: After a 1939 Japanese bombing raid on Chungking: Also from 1939: And from a few years later, published  for dist...

“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word ...

 There were no preying mantises this year.  Well, I saw one, about two inches long, pale brown, swaying back and forth on the front porch....

  Just another day at the office, Navy style.

One time when I was in Japan, not SOFA but on my own as a student taking intensive Japanese courses at International Christian University...

Enough grim stuff.  I had a great time this weekend, chowing down on some groovy grub with grand pals and then spinning some platters far in...

Wa r is something every man I have ever known was deeply interested in. Why?       Calm and full the ocean under the cool dark s...

  The bond between a father and daughter never breaks, but it can hurt each very much to maintain.  If you don't understand this story, ...

 "You men do not want women educated to do anything, to be able to earn an honest living by their own exertions. They are educated as ...

 November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early, And dawn coming late, And i...

 In a previous post I mentioned that some job interviewers had referred to me as a corn pone, and when I first started classes at an HG Magn...