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

"Existence is not something of which we can significantly say that it lacks or possesses meaning. If life is absurd because one can fi...

  The piano is my favorite instrument by far. It's so expressive.  Every human emotion can be evoked with a few finger caresses of the k...

  Dedicated to someone very important to me who is on the other side of the world doing a very dangerous job.

My mother's life-long friend has declined into dementia.  She was fine until she had hip replacement surgery.  Since that she has just f...

 An immigrant can live in America for decades and still not know very much about it.  I mentioned in an earlier post how a Japanese woman ...

  For the first time that I can remember, the Japanese cherry blossoms are blooming, the fruit cherries are blooming and the apple trees are...

Mt Suribachi There is a connection between this post and the previous one.  Can you guess what it is?   “The ultimate factor in the fall of...

Roosevelt and family.  Back in his day, President Franklin Roosevelt called Europe an incubator of wars.  I wonder if, looking at the latest...

 When I tell people I was a Navy brat growing up, if they are civilians and always have been, they react either with incomprehension or  the...

Go and catch a falling star,     Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are,     Or who cleft the devil's fo...

... of yesteryear. It's interesting to see what people believed made American girls different from those elsewhere 80 years ago.  It was...

 Things keep getting crazier and I don't understand why. None of it makes any sense to me.  Who is profiting from this raving nonsense? ...

Teen doing homework & listening to Dorsey  It's easy to think of adults being the prime listeners to big band music during its heyda...

 When the Japanese surrendered, the peoples who had been colonized by the European empires naively believed that the old order was gone fore...