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

I've gone to a few end-of-year get-togethers the last few days -- you couldn't really call them parties, everyone is so subdued.  Th...

Your result for The Lover Style Profile Test The Devoted Lover 64% partner focus, 24% aggressiveness, 35% adventurousness Based on th...

      Memories of a Christmas that seems so very far away and so very long ago now:

Above the marge of night a star still shines, And on the frosty hills the sombre pines Harbor an eerie wind that crooneth low Over the glimm...

At least they had someplace to flee to.  Where escape now?  

I was browsing the comments to some on-line columnist and blundered into one of those squabbles between two disagreeable persons.  The male ...

This poem used to be broadcast over Armed Forces radio, in olden times called FEN (Far East Network) and now called by the seriously lame na...

When I was in college I never went to one of those spring break hot spots. The first year, I was homesick and went home.  The second year, ...

The USS Lexington at Pearl Harbor.  My grandfather was serving aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2), flying Brewster F2As (his squadron referred...

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 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...