For those of you old enough to remember Archie Bunker I had this thought. Why was Archie Bunker so very popular ? The answer is right there and I’m sure you all know it too. Archie was just saying what… Continue reading

Back in September of this year I wrote about a gate to a farm. Above this gate was the word, Friendship. On the particular day I was there the word showed starkly against the sky. The lighting and background were… Continue reading

Are we becoming a country of crybabies ? Sounds like it to me. All I hear about nowadays is how things aren’t fair. Yeah,I know. Life ain’t fair. I wish I could play a games for a living and make… Continue reading

I have two brothers. Both are older than I. One by four years and the other by six. As a consequence I played with neither very much . My sister is only two years my senior so we hung out… Continue reading

While at work the other day one of the young ladies mentioned she had a hole in her knit scarf. I suggested she just darn it . She gave me a quizzical look and said,”what.” I repeated that she should… Continue reading

I was helping my grand daughter with her homework last evening. She is in the third grade and I can manage that,sometimes. She was working on a word puzzle of sorts. The word she was trying to find was pan… Continue reading

The past week has been a week of discovery. Not really discovery I suppose, but confirmation of past finds. I have had in my possession for some time a belt and buckle that I believed to be from the Civil War. It… Continue reading

The grand kids are taking a creative writing class after school. They refer to it using a strange acronym, YAC. I have yet to see just what it stands for. I’ve just been having fun teasing them with it. Saying silly Grandpa… Continue reading

It had been raining on and off for the last few days. The day was dawning gray and overcast but typical for September on eastern long island.A few streaks of red could be seen in the clouds. He had just celebrated his fourteenth birthday.… Continue reading

It had been something that was just gnawing at me. Something I couldn’t quite put a finger on. A feeling or a distant  memory. Then, like the proverbial light bulb coming on,it hit me. One word, Discretion. That is what I was trying… Continue reading