I just finished The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and it was a very interesting read. It’s an account of the Battle of Gettysburg , where six or seven thousand men died and more than 30,000 were wounded in three days of fighting, from the point of view of  the […]

I had a great Thanksgiving this year. I got a whole new set of outlaws and a new mom. My mother and father both passed away last year, so it was kind of up in the air what my brothers and I were going to do. We decided to get […]

The traditional Thanksgiving  tableau depicts the pilgrims of the Plimouth Colony sharing a meal with Massasoit, the Wampanoag chief who saved them from starvation and showed them how to survive in New England. The pilgrims of Plimouth Colony, together with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, slaughtered Massasoit’s  people and stuck his son’s head […]

I was climbing Mount Sugarloaf or North Sugarloaf every day this Summer and Fall. Then I got sick and couldn’t for a while. Now I’m back at it and it feels great. I don’t know what all the noise is on this video. It wasn’t that windy.

I haven’t posted much lately because I’m not used to blogging while sober. So, instead of listening to me babble, try listening to this babbling brook.

I just got back from a wonderful visit to the Cherokee Nation. I had a great time and I learned a lot. I went to Will Rogers’ 131st birthday party, visited his birthplace and explored the Will Rogers Museum. I went to a lot of important places in the history […]

I saw a documentary about the Trail of Tears last night, the relocation of the Cherokee and other native peoples to Oklahoma in 1830, and I thought of my daughter when she was a little girl. What if she and I had been dragged from our homes with nothing but […]

Guess who’s going to Oklahoma to visit the Cherokee Nation? After a long trip in Canada, I ordinarily wouldn’t want to go anywhere for a while, but I snapped up this trip like a hungry trout. One stop is going to be the Will Rogers Museum, and I’m a big […]

During my trip to Canada, I learned that the First Canadian Parachute Battalion Association has ceased its public activities. Peter Worthington, founding editor of the Toronto Sun and himself a Korean War veteran, reports, “Members who survived the war are thin on the ground and it’s time to wrap up […]

Writing is hard, they say, and I have to admit that’s true. Editing is easy, especially when you’re working with great material, and then it’s often downright sublime. But I talk with our contributors, and when they’re cranking out a story, they’re sweating bullets, whatever that means. Writing is hard. […]