A damn good letter February 7, 2024 Another picture from my Flickr Page This is a letter Park College gave me sent to them in the Second World War when they… Continue Reading
Taking the Boys to DC part one of perhaps 10 or 11 columns to come September 13, 2023 The Reader published the first of what could end up being a series of 11 columns about my ruminations following a week-long sojourn to… Continue Reading
My wife’s Sunday Sermon. It brought tears to my eyes. February 23, 2022 The other woman in my immediate family. Continue Reading
My daughter weighs in on the life of a Teacher February 23, 2022 Now a message from the other woman in my immediate family: Continue Reading
George S Robb Center for the Study of the Great War February 4, 2022 From the George S Robb Center for the Study of the Great War My Grandfather George Robb has posthumously lent his name to his… Continue Reading
Genealogical Geology October 26, 2021 Since me return I’ve been making use of the office I cleaned an organized to within an inch of its life. This is the… Continue Reading
From the little girl who asked me to make a snow dinosaur 34 years ago February 25, 2021 Continue Reading
My daughter knocks another one out of the park May 28, 2020 She will be missing her Hunters. Continue Reading
Half hearted Mother’s Day May 10, 2020 So half-hearted that after uploading the title I got distracted. Oh well. Even for Mothers its better late than never. And Claudia won’t be… Continue Reading
A Bangles tribute from Keely and company for Coronovirus April 20, 2020 Too much Coronavirus time to kill. I think my family killed it. In case you couldn’t tell the wacky old guy playing with the… Continue Reading
Another new start on a book January 31, 2020 Trying to figure out just what to write bookwise has been a preocupation of mine for ten years. It keeps getting more urgent. Donald… Continue Reading
Back to the Reader November 8, 2019 Here’s my column in this week’s Reader: On Being a Student Until the Day I Die Continue Reading
General Grant June 18, 2019 At the Quora site on the Internet in which people ask questions and experts show up out of nowhere to answer them I read… Continue Reading
You won’t need to know Italian once you’ve drunk from the . . . June 10, 2019 . . . elixer of love. My gang in a sleepy Tuscan village. Pass the sangiovese. Continue Reading
I’m going to the opera……you could come too June 10, 2019 https://loonopera.org/events/elixer-of-love/ This was a sing through with the orchestra but without all the theatrics. I have a daughter and two grandsons on stage. Can’t… Continue Reading
Memorial Day Remembrance May 27, 2019 At noon I put up our US flag for Memorial Day. I’m not a fanatic about following the rules or it would have gone… Continue Reading
Eudora’s latest – Family Heirlooms May 9, 2019 It begins: “I spent last night polishing a family heirloom to send to my son. It’s was set aside for him years ago before… Continue Reading
Giving minority American soldiers their due April 28, 2019 This is a gratifying news story tying my Grandfather to today’s attempt to rectify old intentional historical oversights. It was something he attempted to… Continue Reading
