My wife and I visited Fort McHenry for the first time in many, many years. We went to get lifetime passes to national parks before the price increases. The price for senior’s lifetime park pass goes from $10.00 to $80.00 on 28 August 2017. Seniors, take advantage of this great …
The 2017 Scrimmage Fest was held 12 August. Multiple Pipeline Soccer Club girls’ soccer teams competed. The scrimmage fest provided the opportunity for a team to play against four other teams. Each game was 30 minutes. Two of my granddaughters were on teams. Autumn played for the Pipeline 2010 girls’ …
The Battle for Okinawa and Hacksaw Ridge The battle for Okinawa pitted 182,000 American soldiers against a Japanese force between 100,000 and 120,000. The advantage the Americans enjoyed in numbers support by naval gunfire were was mitigated by the Japanese dug into bunkers and extended underground tunnels. The resultant conflict …
One year ago I posted on WanaTribe the below. Though the pain has receded and we are coming to accept the losses, we still miss them. Missing you What does ‘missing you’ mean? My wife would say it means not being able to make the call to her Mother when …
RVing and Northern Padre Island I told of RVing to Corpus Christi, Texas in our new RV in the last post. We have had four full days visiting with relatives. Read about today when we took our three grandchildren and three of their cousins to Northern Padre Island. Secretly there …
No excuse not to write. Every writer who has written a blog or book on writing invariably notes that a writer knows he or she is a writer by their burning need to write. Anything else is unacceptable. But there are valid excuses for not writing. Today is the first …
The writing doldrums are upon me. When I sit to work on my project, Kiliane’s Rage, I end up checking email and my social media accounts. I haven’t looked at my project in two weeks. The other day, I learned I am not the only one who experiences this problem. …
Defining a Great Weekend with Writing, Carpentry, and Fireworks The great weekend, four days off work, began with watching the wife work a celebration at Fort Meade, Maryland Friday. I spent the evening before the fireworks watching the crowd gathering. It was amazing the number of people who came out …
Father’s Day, the celebration recognizing father’s originated in Spokane, Washington in 1910. A daughter asked her pastor to honor her father in a sermon in June. It did not catch on until the 1930s when different commercial entities recognized the opportunity to sell products targeted as gifts for fathers of …
Have your ever competed in a bowling tournament where you wished it had been one game less or one game more. The Dutchman was one where I wished for one less game. The Dutchman is held in two different Pennsylvania locations. The singles-doubles competition is held in Palmyra at …
