I first came to California at the end of military career, leaving Travis AFB in the rearview mirror. Not a feeling of the last time I’d come but more a feeling I would never live there again. I love California and its diversity in nature and people. If you ever wanted to witness different nationalities…
I’ve been on a little vacation from writing, not because there isn’t anything to write about, far from it. Recently, my wife and I decided to pursue a second career for both of us. When I retired from my first career of near thirty-eight years, I said I wanted to work at something that interested…
After six weeks of wearing a cast and using a knee scooter, cast is gone and now I’m in a walking boot for the next four weeks. I was so over being in a cast, so much so that I was really questioning my decision for this foot surgery. I was at the point of…
The week started off with great anticipation as our horse, Caldera, that we own shares of was scheduled to race Thursday. He as been on the sidelines recovering from an injury last year at the Louisiana Downs race as few weeks prior to the Kentucky Derby 2025. He was highly considered to do well in…
I’m somewhat in disbelief that I’m sporting a short hard cast on my leg. No accident, just a congenital problem with an Achilles tendon being too short. Most of my life, I’ve been fairly athletic playing most sports through high school and later on playing football. I used to have a thirty-six-inch vertical jump, so…
Not sure if I can romanticize about tying a fly, but I do think about it often. I’ve been thinking about it more lately because I ran across my fly-tying box and brought it into the house. I thought, since I was going to be laid up for a bit, I might try to get…
No less than my fourth major surgery in fifteen years, and I’m not sure I feel any better for it, but on the other hand one would have to wonder how messed up I’d be without them. There could have been a fifth, but the doctor said it wasn’t worth the trouble and instead I…
Making America Again, reminiscent to some mysterious previous timeframe when whites overlorded all in this country. Are we not or are we certain it didn’t mean to go back to the political unrest of the sixties? It couldn’t mean seeking the times of Lincoln and the discord then with Andrew Johnson taking center stage upon…
For the better part of my life, when August comes around, I’m locked into really only one thing, college football. Mind you, I enjoy most all sports, but many, I half-heartedly keep up with what’s going on and then get focused come championship. But when the end of August rolls around, I’m fully engaged through…
