Did not post yesterday since most of the day was spent on I-65 traveling from Chicago to Louisville. We departed in a gentle rain which surely will bring down the few remaining leaves from the trees in the neighborhood. The plus side of the 6 hour drive was the brisk movement of traffic around…
I agreed to accompany my wife to the American Legion Post in Gurnee for the Veterans Day ceremony. She is a member of a local choral group that was to participate in the community event. As she is recovering from a knee injury I did the driving. It’s never been easy for me to…
Guess which of these guys is the leader of the “free” world? Given this impression–which man would you chose to follow? Assuming that you were in a position to have a choice………………… Ruling a great country is like cooking a small fish. –Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching chapter 60
I’ve always loved this song. It is one of Elvis signature tunes, but the credit for the superlative lyric go to Ronnie Milsap and Eddie Rabbitt. The lyric knits together time and place by means of a consuming quest for a person who is loved. Each of us is a mystery to ourselves, our…
Sutherland Springs, Texas, First Baptist Church, Devin Patrick Kelley, 15 magazines of AR-15 ammo, 15 rounds per mag, emptied into the congregation. Twenty six people are killed. Kelley is dead. I read these “facts” and more on the CNN website. The bottomless analysis of the event continues. Everyone who has an opinion weighs in,…
Another morning. Its Wednesday and at least I am not in traffic on I-294 in the stampede to Chicago. Around 6AM yesterday before dawn I accelerated up the ramp into the stream of traffic with a massive chrome truck bumper in my rear view mirror. In the darkness the surreal stream of headlights, with…
Strange the memories that present themselves in surprising detail. I remember falling in love with a Ford Mustang. It was 1965, my sophomore year in high school. An acquaintance who lived in the neighborhood was given a new Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback by his mother. It had a 289 ci motor and a four…
Our last evening in Sister Bay we picked a restaurant called Chop. The place appeared to be newer by comparison to the other places we had dined during our stay. So close to Lake Michigan, but I had enough fish, so anticipated consuming something different for our last evening meal in Door County. The…
D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you. It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to…
A few days in Door County Wisconsin was just what we needed. We stayed four nights at the Sister Bay Inn. The sojourn in our comfortable room was existentially satisfying when we read the story of the inn keepers, Vilius and Alma Vaicekauskas. We had occasion to converse with them several times while we…
