Who Can See Better - those who can only see the transitory things of this world, things which are fading away and will soon be no more, or those who can also see the things which are spiritual and remain forever? Do you look fo [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I don’t often talk about it, but my birth was a traumatic experience. The day began uneventfully; I slept late, as was my practice in those lazy months, with no plans other than the usual---a bit of thumb-sucking, some stretching, kicking, napping a [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I grew up watching TV---Robin Hood, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, Superman, to name a few, and tons of westerns: Roy Rogers, Hop-a-long Cassidy, Maverick, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Rifleman, and my favorite, The Lone Ranger. I t [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Most Americans love Britain. She is, after all, our mother country, and how can you not love your mother? That’s why America ground to a halt when we heard the news about Lady Di, and why we were glued to our satellites when Kate Middleton married... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
My parents had piled the kids in the Plymouth station wagon and we were on the first leg of a long vacation trip, no doubt headed to a beach, with Dad driving late at night. The back seats had been folded down, and the five kids were lined up like l [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The summer after I completed sixth grade (yes, I completed sixth grade, and I resent the question) my family moved from Maryland to central Florida. (And yes, they brought me with them. One more question like that and I might just stop answeri [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Last week, for the first time, on a whim, I stopped at a nearby farm with a large sign reading, “Pick Your Own Strawberries,” but it was a scam. As I had long suspected (and this is why I never stopped before), when I got in the field, there was abs [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience, but when I was about ten years old, a wolf would come to my bedside at night. He wasn’t the sort of wolf that howls at the moon and travels in packs. He was the sort of wolf that walks upright o [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When we were kids, in the fifties (yes, I mean the nineteen-fifties) our parents used to say that my brother Doug was accident-prone. What they meant was, he had a defective warning light. In normal children, as you know, that ligh [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When I was in high school in central Florida in the sixties, the Mission Impossible television show was popular. In the unlikely event that you aren’t aware of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), it was (or is) a secret band of government age [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]