From the TLDR Series. Letters From Dead Folks. Father and Mother would have been so very proud. Search engine synapses conjure some...

The old swing. Down behind my Dad's garage on the only practical branch in the yard. He put it up in that tree 30ish years ago, I knew it...

Our entire corporation. Krystal is the CEO, COO and CFO. Volunteer, at that. Unpaid. No vacations. I'm the Technician. Just doing my job,...

My plans to attend a big ceremony were foiled this year. No big surprise, stuff happens. Like they say down south, if it ain’t one thing,...

Another Harmon story. I had a service call in Scarborough. A side road off a back road, south of the speedway, headed toward the marsh. A...

Born in County Galway, Ireland in 1881, Ned brought his young family to America in search of a better life. He worked hard for the rest...

EDIT: This story has been in the works for a long time. It was birthed from my upcoming Civil War Saga, “The Boys in the Box”, still a...

Monumental Monday Series Civil War Memorial Hollis, Maine Here’s another that I’ve driven by a zillion times but never really seen until...

Civil War Memorial Monumental Monday Series I’ve been to Evergreen Cemetery dozens of times. I stop when I’m in the neighborhood to visit...

Monumental Monday Series Thomaston, Maine A handsome statue, erected in 1913 in the center of the Main Street Mall in downtown Thomaston....

A grave story. Heavy words. A lot to ask for. Even more to promise. I think care should be expected. Taken for granted. As a society,...

Today’s fancy washing machines are impressive, but not very durable. Four years is the average expected service life, no matter how much...

Part of the Monumental Monday series. Here's another beauty that's easy to miss. To see a hundred times but never really notice. A...

Civil War Memorial. I have people in this pretty burial ground, and it's on my giant list of places to explore one day. When time allows,...

This is how my stories start. And how they get dragged out. It isn't my fault. I took a look in the old homestead barn today, scouting...

Memorials are all around us. Notable personalities, historic events. Things that our predecessors felt important enough to tell us about....

Solid. Not the best adjective to describe people, but it’s the one I keep coming back to. I come from solid people. From my parents to my...

The wonders of life. A new baby born at this moment might live for 100 years, or the poor thing may never take that first breath. Any...

Wrecking the kitchen. That’s what my wife says, when Daddy does the cooking. I’ll admit to using a lot of pots and pans. She gets a rare...

The grass has finally reclaimed it. Just part of the field now, one can barely envision the huge vegetable garden that flourished here....