So, yesterday, my fingers flew over the keyboard, trying to recount the wonders of the Rosie Road-Trip at the Holiday Inn Express north of Columbus, OH. The whole Rosie delivery saga still had me energized- jazzed, in fact- and damn the expense. I had to be in Ohio anyway. I checked the Google Earth algorithm […]

The rain started spattering against the side of the Kokomo Holiday Inn Express around three AM. My brother was snoring in the bed next to me, and suddenly awake, I began to think beyond the end of the mission, when the Pepto-Bismo-colored flanks of the classic Rambler Station Wagon would take up her position in […]

The blizzard swept from the north and east. I wandered down to the lobby to get one of the larger cups they have for the house-blend coffee and looked out past the registration desk and saw the white stuff blowing sideways. We looked at Doppler radar, and the immensity of the front passing mostly to […]

We used to call at Roosie Roads, Puerto Rico, and could not resist the title. Sorry. We had some fun there, before he venerable old Spanish-American War vintage base was shuttered, and the island of Vieques was bombed for the last time. But it was Rosie’s Roads yesterday. We poured some raw gas down the […]

Well, I thought we closed out the memories of the old days in the P.I. and Japan, as related by Virginia Ann Wheeler Martin yesterday. She was a dear friend, and we will all miss her enormously. If you happen to be in the neighborhood of Seville, OH, on Tuesday, April 12, at 2:00 pm, […]

So, this morning ends in triumph: I walked down to the barn to make a valiant last try at starting the Rambler, expecting to find the battery dead from the exertions of yesterday. I did not touch the gas pedal, having convinced myself I had flooded her yesterday with what a remembered was the customary […]

01 April 2016 Editor’s note: No joke, despite the date. I was going to continue the story of that Med Cruise long ago and try to stay away from getting emotional about the current chaos of a nation turning itself inside out and not doing very well at it. Messy business, but that is not […]

Editor’s note: more complete idiocy out there on the campaign trail yesterday. I am going back where the only real threat in the world is a heavily armed Soviet Union in 1989. Gentle Readers, remember, if you will, the merry band of Carrier Air Wing SIX embarked in USS Forrestal (CV-59) who did not know […]

(George Washington Plunkitt, late of the New York Legislature, and Tammany Hall. He was a master of practical politics). I didn’t think they could get me to do it, but they have. I am an intensely political beast, and I have always had a fondness for the rough-and-ready nature of the American political process, warts […]

27 March 2016 Mrs. Virginia “Jinny” Martin, 88, of natural causes at Rancho Santa Fe, CA. A friend wrote: “She was frail yet her passing was unexpected.” Born in February,1928, to Mr. and Mrs. Otis Wheeler of North Harmony Street in Medina, Jinny was proud of her heritage in the Buckeye State. Her ancestors included […]