Thursday, 17 January, 2008 Our rig came off the ship at 6:20AM on Sunday, 14 January. We had a chance to partially inspect the rig later that day and knew it was damaged, perhaps destroyed. We sold our…
A Battle of Boyne Veteran
I was doing some research for a project yesterday and came across the clipping that follows. It is an excerpt from the March 5, 1776 issue of the Londonderry Journal, the newspaper of the time in what is now Londonderry,…
The Seekers
December 25, 2004 It took some time to get our tree this year. We had a couple of abortive attempts, but one or the other of us was just not in the mood. Finally, a few weeks ago, we made…
e-Postcard from Sikkim, India
April 12, 2004 I felt like Ralphie. I couldn’t think of a single thing. My mind was as blank as a mid-winter Iowa cloud-covered sky. Ralphie, hero of the classic film, A Christmas Story, in a final act of desperation…