I was charged with watching the farmhouse in West River Maryland. The farm sat on 260 acres with 60 of them on the Chesapeake Bay. The farm grew corn, wheat, but mostly tobacco. The income from 100 acres belonged to Joe,the tenement farmer, and his extended family. Joe and his wife were hired back in ….  Read More

Now two years have passed, and I could count the times I was inside Signe’s House on my fingers. The few times I carried her groceries in, the times I brought the discarded pool cues from the pool cue factory (for kindling), the few times I toted in wood for her fireplace. Always with a ….  Read More

My friend Signe was more than just my friend. When we were growing up my parents taught us to help our neighbors. We mowed lawns, shoveled snow, ran errands, and did odd jobs for our elderly neighbors for free. We never even thought of taking money from them. That is not how we were raised. ….  Read More

Just your typical Saturday evening in Georgetown Wash. D.C.. My friend Tom and his girlfriend Cindy had finally departed, headed back to Detroit. They had stayed with me for six days setting up camp sites in my back yard for the 35-40 Outlaw that were coming to camp in my yard Three men from the ….  Read More

While in Helsinki Finland we found out about the shopping boat trip to Leningrad, Russia. A novel trip where you get on a boat in Helsinki and go to Russia for the day. No visa, no papers, just go shopping. We thought we could shoot across and see Leningrad with all of its beautiful architecture, ….  Read More

Up in New York with my buddy Phil. Staying with his mother in White Plains. All of a twenty-five-minute train ride to the city. It’s super bowl weekend and Phil says, let’s head to Tribeca. There’s a bar there that has the best super bowl party known to man. I’m game I say, get it ….  Read More

OK, I quit my job and played golf for a week or two. I woke up, got a cup of coffee, and was trying to figure out what to do that day when my lovely wife said to me If you don’t find a job today don’t bother coming home. I thought I’d look for ….  Read More

One beautiful summer afternoon I went to the local deli on Potomac street near Wisconsin Ave. They made great sandwiches and sold beer to go. I had done this same lunch routine many many times before. Get sandwich and two Becks beers head to the wall of the parking garage and enjoy lunch. Half a ….  Read More

One Christmas many long years ago I was trying to date a young lady. It was Christmas time and cheer was everywhere. I called said young lady early an Saturday morning to see if she would go out wiyh me for a day of fun. She said she had volunteered to wrap Christmas gifts at ….  Read More

On a beautiful summer afternoon my girlfriend and I were returning from a Civil War dig near Richmond Virginia. Not having to be anywhere in a hurry we had packed a picnic lunch and headed up I-95 in a leisurely manner. After about 35 minutes into our trip we were looking for a scenic roadside ….  Read More