Future View
Speaking of memories (see my last post), I was thinking the other day about the gas crisis caused by the oil embargo of 1973. For those of you who are old like me, you may remember the huge jump in gas prices (from 35 cents to 55 cents a gallon). Irate people sat in […]
Always Now
In E.L. Doctorow’s novel about the Civil War, The March, there is a minor character who has a spike thrust through his skull during battle. Miraculously he lives, but the spike is pressing on a part of his brain that affects his memory. His memory is so badly affected, he cannot even remember what […]
Walking
My wife has me on a walking plan. It’s a program promoted at the hospital where she works. The long and short of it is we have to walk 7000 steps a day for six weeks. Each evening for the last week we have looked at our pedometer praying it has reached the 7000 […]
Goof
You may not be able to tell by looking at this picture on the internet, but it is all wrong. I saw this interesting looking building from the main road last week in my travels. To get to it I had to drive about a 1/2 mile up a dirt road (my car had […]
Reprieve
This morning, in the pre-dawn hours a storm raged through my town with flashes of lightening and loud, rolling thunder. The aftermath has been a gray day of drizzle. Depressing, you say? Not for me. I laid in my bed this morning listening to the drum rolls of thunder and the windblown rain against […]
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