Once upon a time….Is this not the way many great stories start? I’m not saying this is a great story, but it is a story, […]
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It occurs to me
Scotland invades America….
Scottish World Cup fans have recently done their country proud with their friendly demeanor and demonstrated pride in their great country as they descended in […]
Continue readingThoughts on being vexed….
When I find two of my favorite authors, Matthew Henry of 17th Century England, and Mollie Hemingway of the present day both using a word […]
Continue readingSee those birds….
Have you ever given birds much thought? The other morning I observed several different birds in both the back and front yard (garden for my […]
Continue readingMemorial Day 2026 in a small town…
As is the custom of Legion Post 137 of Hooker Oklahom, the local cemetery is decorated with “Casket” flags, some 128 of them, donated by […]
Continue readingThe untimely death of St. Michael’s….
I’m a guy who gets attached to things; people, places, cars, guns, books, fountain pens, etc. These few inadequate words are about a special place […]
Continue readingA Parable of a PILOT CAR….
Coming home from a dental appointment in Garden City Kansas I chanced upon some road construction. I knew it was there as I had driven […]
Continue readingI’ve seen the light….
As I worked my way through Claire Harmon’s biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, I noted that Stevenson mentioned he had read The Lighthouse by R. […]
Continue readingA conversation at the Bell Rock….
A rock known as Inchcape, is part of a long and treacherous reef lying some 12 miles east of Dundee Scotland. Inchcape is in the […]
Continue readingI felt proud….
I was proud today. (April 11, 2026) I don’t often sit around feeling proud, but this morning I did. Thanks to Breitbart News, I was […]
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