All I wanted was a couple of diet cokes. One of the things that my son and I treat each other to are diet cokes from McDonalds. We can get them anywhere, but we love the extra bit of carbonation that ...  Read More

I remember growing up that I had to memorize my home phone number in case I needed to contact my parents. Later I memorized other family members’ numbers and of course friends as well. Today…I think I...  Read More

Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France in World War II. On that day, thousands of ships and thousands of airplanes and tens of thousands of men attacked the beach...  Read More

I got a lesson in doing the right thing years ago when I was working in a winery during the summer while in college. My job was to “throw glass on the line” all day long. They would bring pallets of e...  Read More

One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was Disney’s “The Absent-Minded Professor”. It is about a college professor who accidentally invents an incredible material that gains energy every time...  Read More

He was a soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War. He was buried in The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. The body lay there for 26 years, until DNA testing in 1998 was done...  Read More