Thou shalt not cause excess stress on an old man with a heart and bladder that don’t work very well. Yay Pacemaker/Defibrillator and SPC (you can look that one up…
You might remember that line. "I'd walk a mile for a Camel." Way back when, like about 70 years ago, that was a famous ad line for Camel cigarettes, a…
Seems like yesterday.As a matter of fact, it was yesterday. 8:30-ish AM — “Good morning, Marjorie. Let’s go to one of your favorites: Cracker Barrel in North Charleston.” Sure, there…
German composer, Richard Wagner wrote a series of four operas, which he entitled The Ring of the Niebelung. Took him over 20 years to write, and it takes 15 hours…
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…