Thoughts and words from some interesting authors
I count myself among the few lucky enough to have experienced piloting an aircraft above 70,000 Feet (close to 15 miles above the earth’s surface). The U-2 Dragon Lady is the only operational air breathing aircraft currently capable of reaching such altitudes. It is also an aircraft of notoriety as…
Anyone who’s ever studied the art of navigation is familiar with the name, Bowditch. Years ago, one of my three sons was intrigued by numbers (and still is). When he was ten years old, he read a book titled, Carry on Mr. Bowditch, about the life of the famous mathematician and…
I was 13 years old when I started surfing. In those days, I was too young to drive and only made it out to the beach when I could beg a ride from one of my sister’s boyfriends or convince my parents to take me. Eventually I made enough friends who…
Last week I celebrated my 56th birthday. Instead of venturing into the cold waters off Oregon’s Pacific Coast as I did with my eldest son the previous year, I picked up a copy Daniel Duane’s autobiographical work, Caught Inside “A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast.” This book has been an…
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. More specifically, a fiction author. As a boy, I used to make up stories and then acted them out with characters and props made of a hodgepodge of Legos, Lincoln Logs, Matchbox or Hot Wheels, and of course G.I. Joe (sometimes I’d…
I thought for this week’s “story” post, I’d write something a bit more light hearted than what I posted last week. Imagine how different things would be if our dogs could talk. Oh the stories they’d tell. Yes the idea is the same as a cliche’ “if these walls could talk”…
Turkish people have a tradition that is closely linked to the making and drinking of coffee. Once a bride is betrothed, the the bride’s family hosts a formal ceremony where the groom and his family sit for coffee and visit with the bride’s family. For those unfamiliar with Turkish Coffee, the…
