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Letter to Max

Dear Max, It’s Memorial Day and I’m thinking about Korea and about you, Max.  You and those other G.I’s they carried off on liters from that damn, beat-up powder-topped hill we called Old Baldy.  We […]

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My Music

In 1997 I went on a songwriting binge and it lasted thru 2001. When I discovered a recording studio in Coldwater, Michigan manned by a musical genius, Greg Brayton,  I managed to turn out at […]

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You’re Somebody

In 1981 we came out with my first children’s book titled The Three Robots. My goal was to teach children positive living concepts. My vision was of parents reading my books to their children while […]

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Books

For most of my life I have been a book nut. When I go to a yard sale I’m a real sucker for a stack of used books. I’ve got seven book cases in my […]

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Observation

For most of my life now I have been watching people. I remember doing it in Chicago in the mid-fifties,backed up against a building so I didn’t get knocked down and trampled. I’d be standing […]

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Butterflies

We have, in our garden, three healthy Coral Bell Azaleas that came into full bloom last weekend and as we drove up our driveway Jean and I both noticed a mass of gorgeous yellow butterflies […]

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Ted.com

I visited Battle Creek, Michigan the other day and an old friend and his wife approached me and said, “You might not remember me Art, but I will never forget you because you changed my […]

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Caution Ahead

“All four lanes were running into the back of cars,” said driver Mary Holmes, who was driving from South Carolina to Raleigh. “It was like something you see out of a movie.” Robert Turner, a […]