Natalie was probably the most influential person in my life. I can’t think of anyone more effective in how I think and behave today. Well, there is one other; Neeley. Neeley will probably be the last great effective person for me. At any rate both are in my life forever. This story begins with Natalie … More Walking Across the Fucking Paint

I’m seventy six years old, soon to be seventy seven in February; in about two months. My age has become a concern to me; you know like the mortality thing and energy thing and health thing. However this is not what I am going to talk about today. Maybe never. My attention is on the … More Life Becomes Reruns if You Live Long Enough

THE PAST IS ALWAYS WITH US Just like a seed or a tick our past events are stuck to us. A function of time, happenings go through a process of transformation from not yet to uh oh. We supply the adhesive with our individual response. The adhesive is the level of emotional investment that gets … More Memories

JUST ANOTHER JOB More or less Early in my Navy career as a crew member of one of the Navy’s new nuclear submarines we’d been at sea for a few weeks testing the ship’s control systems. We were off the east coast. The submarine had surfaced in preparation for entering port. I came up from … More Just Another Job