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                                                            My family has been involved in public safety for over fifty years. Myself, 30 ye...

                                                                A GOOD EXAMPLE   I went down to the river the other day just to sit and thin...

  WAS IT A BAD IDEA?   250 years or so, when this country was founded the intent was to form a democracy where all people would have a shot ...

With the advent of spring and summer, one thinks of storms and bad weather that seem to be more and more of a problem lately. My thought goe...

                                                               So, it’s the day before we leave Arizona for Minnesota. This is our fifth win...

                                     As a small boy growing up in a small town my world, seemed to be defined by what I heard from those aro...

                                                   I grew up in the small town of Staples. At that time, it was a railroad town and the town...

                                                               The American Writer Kurt Vonnegut once wrote and I quote,  “The very edge of ...

                                                              Yesterday on my birthday, I became an octogenarian. When people ask how do you...

                                                  I remember as a young man, lying on my back, on my parent’s lawn one warm late spring nigh...

                                                                THE WAY I SEE IT.   If I, have one thing to be thankful for, it is that I wa...

                                                     THE BUILT IN REWARDS                                                              I got...

                                                    Mother Theresa once said and I quote.  “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hu...

        I have always loved those people who make us laugh. With all of the troubles in the world now days, having a good laugh is an aphrod...

  A few years back I decided to write my memoirs and now I’m pretty much finished. Not that my life has been anything that earth shattering ...

  ,                                                                                                            I think when human beings wer...

                                                                Aul Lang Syne is and will always be, synonymous with the end of a year and t...

                                          I dreamed a dream the other night that this year at Christmas, I could just go back and relive one...

                                                               A few years back I was standing on the deck of the United States Battleship M...

    Since we bought our place in Crosslake back in 1987, we have had quite a few different neighbors. They were all good people in their own...

  While you are reading this Pat and I will be back in Arizona for the winter. For me this was the summer that was never was, living in fear...