As patriarch of our family, since both my father and Janet’s father are gone, I really don’t expect any special gifts for Father’s Day. But I know that Janet and the kids wouldn’t hear of not recognizing and memorializing the…
Embracing Change Through Faith
Each spring, we do our traditional cleaning and that includes the washing of the furniture on our decks and patios as well as the actual decks themselves. We use a power washer and Andrew has been kind enough to help…
I was working in the yard late Friday afternoon and suddenly heard the hauntingly familiar ring of the bells that I remembered from my youth. Perhaps you also would have recognized, somewhere in your distant past, the sounds of the…
On this day, June 9th, several months before Janet and I were married in 1973, Secretariat won the Triple Crown with a victory at the Belmont Stakes – having already won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Secretariat’s history was…
June 6th marks the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of the coast of France in 1944 under the command of future President Dwight Eisenhower. Much has been written about this unbelievable invasion by the Allied troops again the forces…