I’ll be dead soon and once the memory is gone, what is there?
This post is rambling, but my purpose here is to clarify thoughts about what it is I value.
Positioning of hard things
I learned the other day this country once had a “scourge” of “sports mania”. Not the kind of sports-watching team-rooting mania we have today, but of people actually doing exercise.
Thoughts on hospitals and funerals
Funerals and healthcare in this country are bizarre. Also, have some class.
Wilma Jean Blankenbaker
Just under 18 years ago I buried my mom, one of the two strongest women in my family. Today I will bury the other, my grandmother.
Hitting the Mark
46 years after the Boer war, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stared down Nazis. In desperate need of help he reached for his pen. Late one evening by candlelight, Churchill wrote a letter to the new President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.