
Year: 2018


War Stories
I have a book titled “1st Cavalry Division, Korea, June 1950 to January 1952.” When the 1st Cav was pulled out of Korea at the end of 1951 they moved the entire Division to Camp […]

It Ain’t Over
Leonard Hamilton led Florida State University through an interesting battle with Michigan University all the way up to the final eleven seconds, was it? I guess then he started thinking about the $800,000 in bonus […]

Goin’ Fishin’
With all that’s going on here in America I thought it might be a good time for us all to just go fishin’. I wrote this song when visiting Wyoming speaking for the U.S. Air […]


The Phone Call
I just phoned my sister and some say that she has a bad memory. I don’t see her that way. To me my sister is a brilliant 90 year old well educated woman who can […]

Somebody Threw A Bottle
Years ago, a friend of mine, a locomotive fireman-engineer was killed, in Chicago, when he was hit in the head by a bottle thrown as he was moving his train out enroute Battle Creek. Eventually […]

They Can’t Stop!
In 1971 I was named to the Michigan Governor’s Commision on Railroad Crossing Safety and since I’d been working at Grand Trunk Western Railroad since 1948 as a Claim Agent I already had a load […]

BBQ Adventure
We drove over to the Smithfield’s Bar BQ & Chicken outside Mebane, NC and as we were at the counter ordering I asked the cashier, “What is that white stuff they give you with fish?” […]

My Songs and Memories
I’ve been using CD’s with the songs I have written in the past in live presentations with Senior groups recently. . Most of these songs were taped by a musical genius named Greg Brayton. I […]