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

"I still don't understand why lookers-on of battle try to use words to tell what they've seen. Or why I do. You don't reme...

  I invited a friend, a typical city/suburban type, to spend her vacation with us on our ranch and she's certainly enjoyed it.  She marv...

Pawnee Scouts gather beside a Union Pacific train in 1866. The last to retire were Apaches, but the first and most famous were the Pawnee.  ...

I was chatting with a Japanese acquaintance about current affairs and she mentioned that there were so many Ukrainian refugees in Japan now....

    And so another spring passes.  It was a rainy one.  We had hail rattling down on cold north winds, followed by warm southwesterlies brin...

 Spurious correlations are everywhere these days, especially regarding Covid-19, particularly its postulated origin and the alleged side-aff...

Not everybody fits in -- or wants to.  Civilization:  what a drag.  I'm not being sarcastic.  I'm thinking of guys like Christopher ...

 

"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...