I am so blessed with an exceptional group of friends. I never fail to carry their warmth home, and also interesting and provcative thinking. The other day at the Grill with Joan was no excepton. The topic of the American Bison and its fate arose. With it an amazing volume of memories, many my earliest, began to flow. more »

We've called it Veterans Day for now over 50 years but I know today as Armistice Day. I know it from the French soldiers engraving on the 105mm howitzer shell that my Great Aunt Harriet brought back from rhe war; The Great War. more »