The first time I made coffee for just myself
I made too much of it
But I drank it all just ’cause you hate it
When I let things go to waste
And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost at the mall
And an astronaut could have seen the hunger in my eyes from space
And I [...]

My grandson Ethan’s first moments with training wheels off his bike:

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Makes me think of all the gracious people in my life who have stepped in as my bike helmet whenever I’ve taken the training wheels off.

As euphoric as I have been since 11 p.m. EST last night, a recent experience tells me I can’t come close to what that moment actually meant, much as I might want to.
The final night of the Democratic National Convention I went to a local theater to watch Senator Obama’s acceptance of his party’s nomination [...]

The wind has turned southward, once again, and we shall go with it.
For anyone reading this who does not already know, come February 2009 Karyn and I will leave Philadelphia and move to Durham, North Carolina. Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise we will be buying a house almost directly across the street from [...]

Ruby Adelaide Free, our sixth grandchild and Sarah and John’s third child, came to our world a little after 7 pm EDT today. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

You Belong in Dublin

Friendly and down to earth, you want to enjoy Europe without snobbery or pretensions.
You’re the perfect person to go wild on a pub crawl… or enjoy a quiet bike ride through the old part of town.

What European City Do You Belong In?

From my son-in-law (Ethan is my five-year-old grandson):
We were driving home the other day and both kids were in the back seat wearing their fireman hats. Ethan asks me, “What does mine say?” I look and it has FDNY on the badge. I tell him that he is a firefighter in New York. [...]

If you saw the post that was formerly here, please know that it was only meant to be an expression of personal sorrow for a friend. No public statements about any situations in which I may be involved or have knowledge of should be read into it. If offense was taken, I apologize. If you [...]

This is part four of a mult-part story which begins here.
From the last episode: For me, however, it was to be a journey into truly uncharted waters, an instrument none of us had ever dreamed could exist, never mind had we ever even heard of it. The fateful turn came near the end of the [...]

Here are the first three chapters in a story I had begun last fall but never finished. Let us give thanks that many things (and people) leave us, but our stories never do. More chapters soon to come!
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It’s just a story…but then so are we.
“This is it! This is really it. And it’s all here; [...]