Nuggets

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 […]

One day a school teacher wrote on the board the following:  9×1=7  9×2=18  9×3=27  9×4=36  9×5=45  9×6=54  9×7=63  9×8=72  9×9=81  9×10=90  When she was done, shelooked to the students and they were all laughing at her, because of the first equation which was wrong, […]

When I woke up this morning I was thinking about a song I wrote about twenty years ago that I recorded with Greg Brayton. It went… Let that little kid come out in me Let me […]

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 […]

I have been writing newsletters since November, 1988. I had delivered presentations at the National Safety Congress to thousands of America’s top safety people and when I returned home, totally exhausted, I faced the ordeal […]

Hot has been the topic of conversation these recent days and my memory went back to 1951 when I was a G.I. at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. We were training to shoot enemy aircraft […]

What a wonderful fall day here in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Just a bit of nip in the air and the leaves on the trees in our yard are like a rainbow. The air is so […]

In my book titled “Serenity! Serenity! Living the Serenity Prayer“, Published in 1993, I tried to do just that… Live the Serenity Prayer. God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, […]