Hello Dick! Here’s my story: I was 18 years old growing up in Texas. I was too young to vote or to drink alcohol legally. However my pastor (at our church), my government (LBJ) and my parents wanted me to go off to Vietnam to fight! Fight? Kill or be killed? Scheiße! I said “No […]
A classmate of mine from LaMoure has been writing short stories and sending them for me to read, and I didn’t know about them until today. I will have lots of reading and deleting to do. I am beginning those things today at the library where help is still within reach. Yesterday was June 2, […]
One ancestor, Runyon C. Tunison, comes to mind as a person of interest. C. was the oldest of 6 children born to William and Elizabeth Fitz Randolph in 1817. Siblings were Tunis, Ira, John, Alexander, and Sarah E. He died at age 72 + months per the obituary of Humboldt County IA (putting birth year […]
My own father sent me away to be raised by an uncle and an aunt who had no children. After a year or so, they sent me to my grandmother in Valley City, North Dakota, a perfect village for a child to be raised in. But I did see my father, occasionally, over the years […]
I have an interesting, somewhat seminal story of my immigrant roots. I had the foresight to gather assorted facts and information several decades ago when older relatives freely shared their stories. My father’s mother migrated from rural Norway and his father from Trelleborg the southern tip of Sweden near Copenhagen Denmark. I speak the languages […]
Please see note at end of post. Today, July 1, is Dominion Day in Canada. The link is to the Canadian Government descriptor of the day. My father’s ancestry is 100% French-Canadian (mom was 100% German). Remi Roy, one of my numerous French-Canadian cousins, and valued friend, recently provided a very interesting summary of the […]
Heather Cox Richardson had a most interesting post on June 25, 2026, the 150th anniversary of Custer’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn. There is nothing I can add to the conversation she begins about the relations between the American Indian and the young United States, suffice to say that her writing is a most […]
Hank, July 24, 2019: Well Common criminal he may be, but [Trump] is the best thing this country has seen since Reagan Obama and the Clintons are far more than a common criminal and all should BE IN jail! They and their entourage (Biden, et al) have raped this country morally as well as financially […]
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Today is Father’s Day. Whoever, However, Whatever today relates to you, have a pleasant day. There are assorted Father’s in my constellation, one of which is me. Saturday morning in front of this screen I took the below photo. The second photo is on the wall behind me, “among my souvenirs”. This is my ‘home […]