Our very dear friend, Terry Culver, died this morning. The news was a terrible blow. Terry came to many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with our family. His April birthday parties were always the best event of the year. We spent many summers with him in Michigan at idyllic Harbor Point. We are stunned and saddened […]

My habit of blogging has been broken by our life being too hectic and exhausting for the past several weeks. Sadly, we have lost another very dear friend, Bill Durham, so let’s start with the sad news and finish eventually on a higher note. We had dinner with Bill just a few days before he

Eddy is home – we picked him up last Thursday, and I am pleased to report he is the same goofy, happy dog he was before we sent him off to prison camp. I am not so pleased to report that the training experience seems to be a waste of a considerable amount of money.

When I started trying to post this blog entry, it had been a week, now a bit more than a week, and life continues to be rather chaotic. I am beginning to doubt that I will ever be a good correspondent or a regular blogger. A female cardinal bashes into the kitchen window day after

On this somber holiday, my family reflects with gratitude on luck. The luck allowed my paternal grandfather and his two brothers to survive the First World War as decorated heroes. My father and his two brothers survived the Second World War. Brian, my father was at D-Day (with the Royal Navy). Uncle Mike was taken