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Just a Simple Smile I pulled into a newly opened gas station and was greeted with a sign that read “Courteous and efficient self-service.” I smiled at myself, said to myself, “Have a nice day!” […]

It doesn’t take much to stir up a vivid memory in this old head of mine. This time it was the memory of a conversation held in the dressing room for the hockey team at […]

My career as a professional speaker began in the very early 70’s. Herb True PhD, a professor from Notre Dame, became a sort of mentor to me when I attended his presentation for our railroad […]

When I was working on a book of memories of my career a few years ago, I sometimes felt as if I had a memory bank in my head that was just packed plumb full […]

Early in my career as a professional speaker I talked with a fellow speaker about my career and he said that I’d need some way to set myself apart from other speakers. I don’t remember […]

I’ve been writing since graduating from the eighth grade. I wrote a serious poem for a pretty girl and she laughed. Then in 1946 I was named “Staff Poet” on the Cub News At the […]

This is Friday and I woke up to find on AOL the good news that North and South Korea had signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula. One condition […]

Bread and water would be easy to do without.  My AOL Connection is something else. It has been five days and nights now since I could just click on my little orange AOL  dot and […]

Today is the Anniversary of something. It took me a while to figure it out but 67 years ago today, April 10th, I had the worst breakfast any human being has ever endured. First let […]

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 […]