NOT ALL HEROES ARE PEOPLE This is a true story which happened on September 11th, 2001!!! James Crane worked on the 101st of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. He is blind, so he has a golden retriever named Daisy. After the plane hit 20 stories below, James knew that he was doomed, so…
I have attended three of my high school class reunions. At my 20th I was drunk and fit right in. By my 30th I’d quit drinking. That proved to be a big mistake. Sober, straight, and wearing casual island garb – I’d just married Carolyn aboard a tall ship sailing into a Key West sunset…
I’m a member of the Silent Generation also known as “the lucky few”. A charter member, really; I was there when the phrase was coined. We still dream of the good old days. The Lucky Few? Well, Sort of… Tom Watson, Jr., then-president of IBM, looked hard at my DePauw University graduating class of 1957, dubbed…
My wife and I recently returned from Greece where the highest term of respect, normally reserved for monastery abbots, is geronda – old man. In fact, throughout the history of the world, old age has most often been equated with wisdom, honor, integrity, and esteem. “Respect your elders” was always expected and enforced in the…
This is an article submitted to a 1999 Louisville Sentinel contest to find out who had the wildest Christmas dinner. This won first prize. As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of pantyhose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say…
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