Category Archives: Intro to My Writings

What: First date, first kiss.                                                                        … Continue reading →

There seems to be a large number of folks who have this curious take on what our flag means to us. It is definitely important in so many ways, and most individuals have a personal favorite thing about it that … Continue reading →

In the summer of 1961 Barbara and I went to Japan with a group of students from the Wesley Foundation Methodist Student Center at the University of California in Berkeley, California. This was a joint international work project with a … Continue reading →

Words are fascinating just in themselves. What are they but a group of letters strung together with a certain sound associated with each specific letter. Together they represent something we’ve come in unison to agree about, and hearing those sounds … Continue reading →

Childhood is a precious and wonder-filled time. Our experience of it was fresh and unfettered by the whims of the mind, and we were able to launch ourselves into the realms of daydreams, make-believe, and fantasy. When I was a … Continue reading →

Back in the ‘60s hippie ants were called Antacids. Ants who take the law into their own hands are thought of as vigilantes. Ant teachers are very often pedantic. Not all, but some just are. Ants with a tendency toward … Continue reading →

(Following is the Introduction to the projected Volume XI in the series I originally began as a project with my grandchildren. It began with a question from my eldest grandson, Casey, who wanted to hear “the world’s worst joke.” That … Continue reading →

I was recently asked during a Creative Writing class I’m taking how is it that I come up with these puns. Do I start out with a theme and go from there, or is there some other thing that happens? … Continue reading →

After my remarkable experience being “discovered” on the inter-net in a search by a couple in Washington, D.C. for a wedding photographer I am a believer. Anything can happen. However, I would not have thought lightning would strike the same … Continue reading →

The inter-net is a vast arena where all manner of things happen. Much of this is surely of someone’s conscious intent. Amazing things take place, though more of it is also pretty mundane and of little consequence in the greater … Continue reading →