Today I watched The Blue Eyed Six documentary on DVD. The Blue Eyed Six were a group of six men, all of them coincidentally blue-eyed, who were arrested and indicted on first degree murder charges in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in 1879. The motive for the murder was an insurance scheme which relied on life insurance […]
By the year 2000, I had been online with a modest website for several years under the persona of Broken Claw. Until that time, I had been using the online services of what were known in those days as Personal Pages, first with some free ad-sponsored websites like Yahoo Geocities, and then with my local […]
I attended my high school Homecoming football game yesterday. There was no particular reason for me to go, other than that my mother called and invited me, and I had no other plans for the day. The last time I had been to a football game at my old high school was probably about fifteen […]
Anyone who has ever played poker knows that the Straight Flush is the highest possible hand because it is the most rare: five cards in rank order (a straight) of all the same suit (a flush). And the highest possible straight flush is called a Royal Flush: a Ten, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace […]
For Trailwalker’s birthday, I planned a surprise weekend getaway to the New Jersey shore. I went online and made reservations at a bed and breakfast in Cape May, but I didn’t tell Trailwalker where we were going. We stopped for gas and snacks, and Trailwalker picked up a copy of Southern Living magazine to read […]
Four years after Hurricane Floyd, to the day, we were hit by Hurricane Isabel in 2003. By the time the hurricane crossed North Carolina and Virginia, it had lost much of its punch, and the rainfall was dramatically less than its potential. As a result, our home was spared any appreciable damage. […]
After four weeks of rigorous training, we made the two-day hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. NOT! Actually, we took the bus trip from Las Vegas to the South Rim. Our first stop was lunch at Max and Thelma’s buffet in Williams, Arizona.
Williams is the closest town on this side of […]
We spent a fun and relaxing vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. For the first few days we stayed in Gatlinburg at the Glenstone Lodge. Gatlinburg is situated on the edge of the National Park, squeezed in a tiny valley, and has been a tourist destination for many years. It was […]
No, not that kind of an eagle. I competed in a fund-raising golf tournament at The Club at Patriots Glen in Elkton, Maryland. My team didn’t finish among the winners, but I thoroughly enjoyed the day. In fact, I made perhaps my best golf shot ever. There was no official recognition, […]
The year ended with the approach of another winter storm. The late forecast on Friday night before New Years 2001 called for 6 to 10 inches of snow to start falling after midnight. We awoke Saturday morning to bright sunshine. Oops! The storm system had stayed offshore, and we got no precipitation at […]