In June 1961, I received my discharge from the Marine Corps and moved to Sacramento, where my parents were then living. I chose to go to Sacramento not because my parents were living there, but because of the super-hot girl, I had met there during …
Read MoreWhy Do I Write?
The question of why do I write is especially significant to me as I am still astonished even today that I do write. If someone had told me only five years ago that I would regularly be writing and publishing novels, I would have been …
Read MoreRetiring From Florida to Colorado
My first exposure to Colorado was back in 1967 when my wife’s parents moved from Sacramento to Aurora, Colorado. Her father had just retired from the Air Force and was starting a new job as a navigator with United Airlines. At that time, my wife …
Read MoreLoss of Hearing
We humans have five basic physical senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. The organs associated with each of those senses send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world all around us. We also have other senses in addition to …
Read MoreAm I a Philosopher?
Recently an older gentleman (yes, even older than me) in my senior’s writers group, when it was his turn to read his writings, read us his views on the world’s problems and his sage advice on how we could make them better. Then to top …
Read MoreOur family origin – Why should we care?
About three years ago I had my DNA tested by ancestry.com and learned that I was 90% Eastern European, 6% Spanish, 3% Scandinavian and 1% Middle Eastern. Three months ago, I had my wife tested and learned she like me was predominately Eastern European and …
Read MoreRites of Spring
When my writer’s group selected “Rites of Spring” to be our writing topic all I could think of was a vision of young maidens dancing around a Maypole with flowers intertwined in their hair. Not really enough to write about as that only took about …
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