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

 I managed the stairs the other day, stiff-legged with my bum knee in a brace, and walked outside for a while to enjoy some fresh air.  It...

  "People can die before their deaths and go to hell."     I am here, I am frightened and I am alone. And I don't know what to...

 I post so many pop ditties that you may think that is the only type of tune I like.  Not so.   Here is one of my favorites that I listen to...

 Look at the date on this major story (it took up about 15 percent of the whole magazine) in Life magazine:  November 18, 1945.  World War ...

I was talking with my mother about the fate of the women I helped train when I was in Afghanistan, one of whom I have heard has been hanged ...

 I took the Raven Matrices IQ test on line and this is my result.   *Blows on nails, buffs on sleeve.* Actually, I'm skeptical of that f...

When I was staying at the line shack I found, as I mentioned, some tools that I had no idea what were.  I took photos of them to ask about w...

It's a pretty grim world out there. Each day brings some new incomprehensible horror.  Has the world gone mad?  I don't understand w...

These days, sitting in my straight-backed chair waiting for my bones to knit, often just staring at the floor when I get tired of looking ou...

 ... ? Oh, my Lord!  I'm beginning to miss the Navy! The fun part You can always dance, wherever you are, whatever you have to do.   It ...

  "It is not only what we have inherited that exists again in us but all sorts of dead old ideas and beliefs.  They are not actually al...

 Still limited in my ability to get around and mostly stuck sitting bolt upright, trying not to move my upper body too much, I've been t...

  W hen I'm able to dance again, I am going to go down to the rec room when nobody is home and go to that big old stereo with the gigant...

 I spent some of the happiest days of my life in Guam.  I do yet remember it and all the people I met there fondly.  I still own an ocean-fr...

 Some old photos... Just married, 1909. Kids get a bath every Saturday whether they need it or not.  Stove is made from an old 55-gallon dr...