• Fishing

    When my father started his naval career, a college graduate in the officer’s program, he made $8,280 per year.  Adjusted for inflation, that amount would equal $32,706 today. First year college graduate naval…

  • Proof? Or Consequences?

    If my internetting skills are remotely up to snuff, there should be a new link over there to your right for a new blog by an old friend: Proof or Consequences.  This friend…

  • My Sons’ Hometown

    Take a United States map.  Place your index finger at the tip of Florida, and then, moving northerly and to the west, trace the Gulf-side border of the state.  You’ll trail your pointer…

  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Corrie P.

    July twenty-third dawned hot and sunny.  Corrie had arranged for all of us ‘maids to spend the morning together at a spa.  Makeup, hair, and nails were on our own dime, so each…