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Gettysburg
One hundred fifty years ago this morning, the charge on Gettysburg commenced. Many times referred to as the turning point of the war, both armies suffered horrible casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg. Today, many have limited knowledge of what … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged Big Round Top, Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge, Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, Colonel William C. Oates, General Evander Law, General Oliver O. Howard, General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg, Little Round Top, my great-great-grandfather, Peach Orchard, Private John Alexander Woodham, Rose Woods, Shelby Foote, The 15th Alabama Infantry, The 20th Maine, The Devil’s Den, Woodlawn Cemetery
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Farewell, Faithful Friend
Well, it is over. After 367,910 miles, the Road Warrior swallowed her last little sip of gasoline, sucked in her last breaths through the air induction system, and rolled her last few feet into the Hyundai dealership in St. Augustine. … Continue reading
After Hurricane Sandy
As a Floridian, I have experience with hurricanes, from those just glancing past home, to the eye of the storm coming right on top of me. I have gone through too many storms in my life, and I have cleaned … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged Atlantic storms, cleaning up after the storm, experience with hurricanes, facing the cold, Floridians, gas stations out of gas, Hurricane Sandy, hurricanes, the Sunshine State
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Coffee & Writing
I have written about coffee before, ever since the inception of my blog on August 5, 2010. I should be a real coffee expert, but I am not. I just drink the stuff. For pilots, coffee is part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal, Writing
Tagged a reporter’s humanity, Coffee & Writing, coffee experts, consumption habits, drinking coffee, farmers, freelancing, IBM Selectric, java, news reporters, newspapers, newsrooms, small daily papers, steaming coffee, typewriter, writing careers, writing in the early morning, writing in the late night, writing obituaries
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Falling to the Darkside
I fought it for the longest time. Many tried to convert me, but I held off as long as I possibly could. I tried everything to avoid the final fall, but I fell anyway. You might say I was resistant … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 6.5 Mobile OS, a very slippery slope, Apple shortcuts and software, Apps, cell phones, Falling to the Darkside, I Pads, IBM, It was Microsoft’s fault!, keystrokes, Macs and Apples, Mac’s, MicroSoft, PC’s, shortcuts
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Memorial Day 2012
This Memorial Day is a little different for me than Memorial Days in the past. On past Memorial Days, I would think of my friends who gave their lives in service of this great nation. There were many of them, … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged Air Force, Army, Bravo Zulu, Marines, Memorial Day 2012, military jargon, Navy, the future of our great nation, the heat of the desert, the Summer of '11, the test of fire by battle, tribute to my students, veterans, Veterans Day, vets on a mission
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E. B. White
I had to come into my office to restart the computer when our network went down. As I was waiting for it to come back online, I looked down to my right and saw my copy of The Elements of … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Writing
Tagged a “little” book, aspiring writer, Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White, journalism students, reading, research, self-published pamphlets, Stuart Little, The Elements of Style, The New Yorker, the University of Florida, William Strunk Jr., writer, writing
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Life Only Began Yesterday
It was a moment one can only describe as profound. We were driving northeast on Pacetti Road thinking about the recent visit of the grandkids. All of a sudden, the realization hit us like a runaway logging truck hurtling down … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life in General, Personal
Tagged Cardenas Cuba, centuries, Cuba, decades, England, grandkids, Highway 16, instant “connections”, Life Only Began Yesterday, lifetimes, Pacetti Road, Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Spain, Tampa, the age of 30, the loss of a friend, the Pacettis, the passage of time, the passing of a grandparent, the Triays
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