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

 I dropped by a little town, population 400 according to the "Welcome to Shelbyville" sign, to mail a letter at the post office, t...

 There's been a change in the feel of the air, autumn is coming.  The misty mornings, the afternoon breeze, the color of the sky, the ch...

 I'm not much of a bar-goer because I'm not much of a drinker, but I like the ambience of some bars -- those with a personality and ...

   "Have you ever felt depressed?  What a foolish question -- who has not?  But the depression we are concerned with is an unhappiness ...

 “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...