Suprise Me

I looked into the back yard and saw my enormous oak tree whirling like a cocktail's swizzle stick, and then with a huge crack and boom, the tree split into three parts, from top to bottom. Read More

I made mental notes and subtle comparisons and contrasts between the Beatles, the Dave Clark 5, the Kinks, the Moody Blues, the Searchers, the Zombies. I Read More

If only the fiftieth anniversary remembrances could restore the initial perceptions that the first ventures into space evoked. Read More

This photo, snapped from atop a tripod on my old Fujica SLR, captures a pivotal time in my life. Read More

Dorothy Hamill had the best hair in the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Maybe of all time. It was shiny, it was silky, it fanned out during her “Hamill-Camel” signature move, it bounced back into place, all pert and sassy. Confident. Strong. And, though it was not yet a common word, that hair was just flat-out… Read More

When I was a child, we traveled mostly to visit relatives and stayed with them. Starting in 1959, we did spend one week in August for five summers up in Charlevoix, a very nice resort on Lake Michigan in northern Michigan. We stayed in The Schutts Guest House, a large house with a broad lawn… Read More

My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun. Read More

This pair has been my guilty pleasure ever since ... Read More

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust man less on the same amount of income”. Said by Plato.  Einstein said: “the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax”.  Trump and his blood-suckers either don’t pay their taxes or use every trick in the… Read More

Depending on which wreck we hoped to dive, the boats usually left the dock between 6:00 and 8:00 AM Read More