My motorcycle travel adventure in 2005 had me heading southeast, down through Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, then back up the East Coast as far as Pennsylvania. I have an interest in the Civil War and would be visiting Civil War Battlefields. The first was Shiloh National Military Park on the southern […]

  The book Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey describes his wanderings after his movie stardom to find validation and understanding of the accolades and celebrity suddenly thrust upon him following his hit movie “A Time for Killing.” He was struggling with his newly anointed fame. There is certainly nothing in the celebrity category that links me […]

The book “The Expendable” by John Floyd describes the period of time in the Philippines immediately before and after war with Japan was declared. Prior to Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. suspected the Japanese were gearing up for an attack on the Philippines and ordered a Navy aircraft squadron to fly surveillance patrols over […]

Early, on a May morning, 1985, with the dawn barely an hour old, my oldest son, Eric, and I arrived at our Indiana airport to load various equipment planned for our two-week flying adventure across the United States. Sleeping under the wing at our various stops was not just a pipedream and we removed the […]

Some people are terrified about having to give a speech before a group. I can understand that because even in high school, I found it was a struggle when having to give a talk. I would stutter, stammer, and nervously sweat bullets. But I got over it. I have Toastmasters to thank for that. Toastmasters […]