Back in the early 1970’s I was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit. I lived just off campus in a small student cooperative with my future wife, Linda, and worked evenings as a night janitor at the cafeteria in the Maccabees Building on Woodward Avenue. This did not…

I finally got the chance to go to New Orleans. Most of the real travel I do in life is part of my work, going to conferences and meetings. So back in August, when I heard that there was a conference in New Orleans, I expressed interest in attending. No…

Man in his arrogance believes that because he has walked on the Moon and has flown in the sky and has journeyed to the bottom of the ocean that he (man) has conquered the forces of nature. …

I was quite worried that I would not get to go on my “fishing expedition” this year. Brother Mark long ago bowed out. He and Jo were planning a trip down south in the spring and he wouldn’t have the vacation time available. I tried to get John to go…

Most people probably don’t think of their lives as part of some sort of story. I think that the reason is that most people don’t feel that extraordinary things happen around them or that notable things happen to them. This is sad, since everything around us is really quite extraordinary…

Linda really wanted to go to the horse show they were having in Columbus, Ohio, in April. She knew she didn’t want to go down there all by herself, but none of her “horse” friend could go. So I volunteered to come and bring our son, Erik. …

Last of the Breed Tour Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, and Asleep at the Wheel The Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan March 23, 2007 The Fox Theatre is an over-the-top art deco theatre on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit. The theatre has lots of marble and gold with numerous…

It was late. Linda was up having problems with her cough and I was watching TV in the bedroom with all the lights off. Our dog, Buddy, got into his mind that he needed to go outside, so I put on some clothes and carefully wound my way in the…

The 2021 Utah Trip May 3rd through 24th, 2021 We didn’t die. We wore masks, even when the locals did not, and we kept to ourselves and avoided staying in rooms with other people and kept a social distance. I managed to avoid running our truck off the side of…