Year: 2014

I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, I’m a Yankee Doodle do or die, A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, born on the fourth of July.  Almost.  Actually I was born on the fifth of […]

Codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began […]

At one point in my speaking career I was enchanted with the word “reciprocity”. I had read the statement, “You can only get out of life what you put into it.” You can string this […]

When I watched the Memorial Day parade at Battle Creek, Michigan in the early sixties the VFW had a float that showed a grave marker and there was a rifle with its bayonet stuck in […]

As I sat watching over two hundred candidates walk forward to receive their diplomas at the recent UNC-Asheville commencement I just couldn’t help but wonder about that word “commencement” and what it might mean in […]

Recently I made a presentation at a Day Care Center for Seniors. I spent about an hour with the group and when I finished they headed in to get ready for lunch. I noticed a […]

  Here in Hillsborough, North Carolina we have what we call “Last Friday’s” events and recently I attended a performance of the wonderful Triangle Tuba Quartet on the walkway in front of the Hillsborough Presbyterian […]