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

 “Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes...

  A raw gray, stormy day, the wind driving the rain at a steep angle into the thrashing trees. What happened to summer? Stuck in the h...

 Or as they used to say, a homemaker.  You are not supposed to want this.  I don't know why.  It used to be considered the happiest life...

 

 

  My grandparents were married for 68 years before my grandfather passed away.  They were fruitful and multiplied, producing children, grand...

  I took my uncle, the handsy one skilled in making up colorful lyrics to old pop ditties, to see his ophthalmologist the other day.  I di...

One of my relatives was what he called "a newsman" for a career spanning decades.  I have written about him before, recounting his...

No dating apps in his day.  He had to say, "Hey, good-looking!" in person. I was reading some comments men made about on-line dati...

It was a vigorous drawing of a Wren firing an Oerlikon at an aeroplane flying very low towards her. The drawing was in sepia crayon. The...

We chatted outside on the porch after dinner about how things would change if there was a nuclear war and Washington, D.C. and the state c...

It was June 2012 when the CH-53D helicopter that Marine door gunner and airframes ­mechanic Sgt. Kirstie Ennis was flying in went down in ­A...

   Here are a couple of cowboy songs sung by George Strait that I think may help explain what it is about cowboys that makes me so fond of t...

I drove my uncle, a widower and old tin can (destroyer) sailor, to his annual checkup with his dermatologist the other day.  He could have d...

 After a difficult day...  

  This guy, Dr. Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, Ph.D. in mathematics, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, is so a...