The pig’s lipstick

We remember when people took time to help us. It feels good to pay forward.

Captive

We never thought we'd be slaves to a couple of heat pumps on a motorhome, but here we are...

The grocer

Ernie is, for the foreseeable future, our home. That reality, as I've said many times, carries the responsibility of...

Flashback: ‘Those gentle heroes’

U.S. Army Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell penned that poem on 1 January 1970, while serving near Dak To, Vietnam. He was declared MIA on 24 March 1970 when the helicopter he was piloting crashed and burned while on a rescue mission in Cambodia. His remains were recovered in 1995 and identified in 2001.

Flashback: Massillon, Ohio (1966)

I’m pretty sure this “flashback” post will have limited appeal. I’m good with that. I spent my childhood in rural northeast Ohio, a few miles outside the city limits of the gritty steel town of Massillon...