My gypsy life began almost immediately after I was born in 1938. From then throughout the 1940s, although we moved from Connecticut, to Maryland, to Virginia, to Missouri, to Nebraska, and to Washington D.C., I spent the summers during those years with my grandmother at her cottage on Lake Wawasee, near Elkhart, Indiana. Lake Wawasee, […]

In 1984 I had just read a magazine article titled “How to get anything you want.” Step one of the method was to announce to one an all what it was you wanted. I really couldn’t think of anything I really wanted but curious about the technique, decided riding a motorcycle sounded like fun, so […]

In 2004, a year prior to Hurricane Katrina, I volunteered to become a Red Cross disaster worker. My motivation that year was the hurricane emergencies in Florida. I envisioned myself driving an airboat and rescuing stranded families from rooftops. Oops, not so fast, I learned. Qualifying as a Red Cross volunteer required certification, and training, […]

The remake of the blockbuster hit, Top Gun, now titled Top Gun, Maverick, had dusted off a 60-year-old Tom Cruise and brought him back as an older but still youthful looking Maverick, as played in the original movie 36-years earlier. Maverick wears his khaki and dress white attires with distinction. Damn, I loved wearing those […]

The weekly luncheon meeting of the Columbus Indiana Rotary club back in 1985 was a gathering of the community’s top echelon of business, legal, medical, and political movers and shakers. I was the Rotary club president. That in itself was no big deal as it was a one-year hitch and many members got their turn […]