Who were your heroes? John Wayne in The Sands of Iwo Jima, Back to Bataan, and Flying Tigers.Gary Cooper in High Noon.Roy Rogers or Gene Autry in about a million different westerns?? Nope. None…
Just Margie and me, and her sister makes three.Mary Louise came down from Virginia to spend the week with us.Now it’s just the three of us, catching our breath after…
No, I don’t mean goin’ south to Miami. Or even Mexico.I’m talkin’ about south of the equator. The southern hemisphere.South latitude in my navigator days. Minus latitude today. In 1963,…
Now I am a cat person. Never thought I'd say that, but I have evolved over 86 years into an honest to goodness cat person. We had a dog, Teddi,…
For the last 34 years, Marjorie and I have lived in the "Holy City" of Charleston, South Carolina. We live in a condominium apartment on the third floor of a…
Life for an octogenarian has many hazards. One of them is winding up on the ground when you least expect it (aka falling). If you're lucky you fall on your…
When Marjorie said, "I do," she became part of a family structure far different from how she was raised. I'm a Yankee from New York and a half orphan, you…
Once a month, a group of 4 or 5 old dudes, including me, meet for lunch, toast each other for making it through another month, ask the Lord's blessing for…
I was especially pleased to receive my next Air Force assignment after three years at Scott AFB, Illinois and the MAC Headquarters staff. Our next destination...Pope AFB, in Fayetteville, NC,…
Denver was my first long-term assignment in a western USA city. It was a brand new, somewhat scary experience for both me and Marjorie. A long way from South Carolina…