We had moved from Alaska to Delaware and Dad had taken us to see the arrival and Christening, complete with a champagne bottle, of a military airplane called a Gooney Bird. It was incredibly large and ugly by standards then. Must have been at least two stories or more high. It sported a very large … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 20

Where were you this day in History?  Please offer your comments in this blog.  I remember my son calling me to ask if I had heard of the events.  That was my first notice. Later that day, it struck me how incredibly friendly, generous and supportive we all had become in our daily lives.  I … More 9/11/2001

Our SUV (that term was not coined until much later. Anyone know when?) was a Chevy four door station wagon. It had bench seats, and a new one added looking backwards. You could easily crawl over the backs of the seats, because they didn’t have head rests. Head rests were that. Whoever thought about using … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 19

With four growing kids in my family, in the 50‘s and 60‘s, we needed to figure out a better way of feeding en masse. So the folks bought one of the first ever, chest style deep freeze, freezers. Defrost was done usually by me or my brother. You emptied everything and put huge buckets of … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 18

Before Coffee, what was brewed? Probably, they just ground up whatever roots were in the forest, because the bean of coffee couldn’t have come into common use until later. But then that was the time that you would only get groceries at the produce stand, in some sort of farmers market part of the town … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 17

We did have an electric stove. I am sure, one of the first. It never did seem much an improvement on the good old gas stove, but much better than the wood stove that my grandparents would have used. You kept it hot always, in case you wanted to stroll in and have a cup … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 16

After just having finished a move, I reflected on the phenomenon of this excercise.  Some of the things that came to mind as I remember back, are the types of homes that now exist, the neigborhoods, and how we move. Sometimes, I see people in their pickup trucks moving stuff around, and I think about … More Changes of the abode kind

Unbelievable!  As we go forward in this journey of ‘Changes” together, thinking of the past, it is hard to digest how quickly the present is passing!  Here it is, another month, and an opportunity to go forward with new goals, new dreams, new aspirations. We travel through time so quickly, that sometimes, for me, I … More August 2010

Well, this is not really a diary, but in some ways it is a walk through time. As I sit here along the banks of the river next to the Castle and Cathedral Durham, England. I marvel at the lack of change. The Cathedral is close to 1000 years old, and the same building tools … More Changes the Book Chapter 15

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King David Hearts – Charlemagne Clubs -Alexander, the Great Diamonds – Julius Caesar