A Snake’s Tale
I have never in my life purposefully sought to have much in the way of dealings with snakes. Surprise encounters did take place from time to time, and I have written elsewhere of spending an evening...
View ArticleA Wild Ride with Chris
One of the most interesting characters that I had the opportunity of serving with in the military was Chris Burnett. Chris was either nineteen or early twenty-something, like all of the rest of...
View ArticleDeath Comes For Three Friends: Why Not For Me?
Death. Now there’s a topic that will always attract attention! Just the word is enough to set the mind to working, sometimes changing the topic and sometimes creating fantasies to explain how we...
View ArticleGraduation Day, Part I
June 10, 1966 dawned warm in San Diego. This was something of a rarity, as the hated “June gloom” condition of fog in the morning with a few hours of sun in the afternoon was the more usual pattern...
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