Nuggets

I have just begun reading a book by former President Jimmy Carter titled “A Full Life. Reflections at Ninety.” This week I start living my 90th year and instead of waiting until my ninetieth birthday […]

Tomorrow morning I will be wearing shorts to the V.A Hospital.  I’ve never worn summer shorts in my life. Over the years I have purchased three pairs of summer shorts but I have never worn […]

We drove to the ocean, Jean and I, for just two nights and had a room on the beachfront on the second floor where we could just lie in bed with the terrace door open […]

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 […]