Christmas is a nostalgic time; there’s no getting around that fact, but it’s not just other Christmases I remember. It’s childhood things; looking back at past summers as well as winters. My younger brother and I were children together. I had an older sister and three older brothers but they grew up, married, joined the Navy, worked […]
Dec 16, 2015
Christmas Concert
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Last night, I went with my family to my granddaughter’s Christmas Concert. What a privilege! Those young people are talented! And beautiful in their neat uniforms and shiny black shoes. They were also attentive. All eyes were on their director and they responded to every nuance in the music and the silent directions from his face […]
Dec 7, 2015
“A Day That Will Live in Infamy”
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that December 7, 1941 was “a day that will live in infamy.” The attack by Japanese planes on Pearl Harbor on that Sunday morning seventy-four years ago does live on in our history, in memory, and in the hearts of Americans. It was a day when more than 2400 Americans lost […]
Nov 11, 2015
Armistice Day
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It was a different kind of world in 1918. Woodrow Wilson was our 28th President. Postage stamps were three cents apiece, a loaf of bread cost a dime and a gallon of gasoline was eight cents. An epidemic of Spanish flu ravaged the country, causing more than 500,000 deaths. Some of the popular songs were […]
Oct 6, 2015
Yogi Berra
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“Take me out to the ballgame; take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks. I don’t care if I never get back.” So goes the once-popular song. My thoughts stray to some interesting baseball facts this morning. For example, on this day, October 6, 1926, Babe Ruth hit three home runs […]
Sep 17, 2015
We the People
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“We the people.” So begins our United States Constitution. This is the day we celebrate that document which is the basis of our Republic. It was written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. It has served us well since 1789 and proclaims that the government exists to serve the people; not the people to serve […]
