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Can you even imagine?  I’ve been retired from the railroad for over 37 years now. Haven’t really worked a day since then, 1983. . When you are doing something you really love to do, I […]

Memorial Day   Did you know that almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea and more than 100,000 were wounded and it wasn’t even called a war at all when it was going on? It […]

Ever since this Corona virus thing started I’ve been searching for how I can get something good out of this mess. I want to learn something I didn’t know, something I didn’t know about myself and […]

God, how the world needs a good shot of happiness and positive thinking right now, this minute, if not sooner.  Enough gloom. Let’s think about sunshine and happiness and smiling too. Let’s think about that […]

I was a Private E-2 in the US Army in 1951, just out of my basic training,  and had just boarded a troop ship in Seattle headed for Korea with a stop off at Camp Drake […]

I sat down recently at my drum set upstairs and a memory flashed into my mind.  I was 13, had met a new friend my age just two streets over and found out he was […]

Are you staying home as you read this because of the coronavirus? Well for folks married or otherwise this can be quite a challenge. It might be quite a strain. I’ve read that the sales […]

When I was a student at the University of Detroit High School my English teacher in the eleventh grade was named Father Skiffington.  He was a tough Jesuit priest and I was the staff poet […]

Is there anybody out there still reading this?  I hope a few will respond. After watching the news one wonders. Leave your comments below near the bottom of the page.   In my life as a […]