I started this post thinking it would be interesting to do, but did not see it becoming a kind of “mini-memoir.” As I went from car to car and looked at why I bought any particular vehicle, I also remembered;
Cars Tell the Story of Your Life
CIGGIE IS HERE!
My daughter takes care of cats and dogs that the local Humane Society has recently taken in. The animals they give her to foster are usually very young or in poor health. Once they are in good or at least
Movie Review: Only the Brave
In the summer of 1966, I was 18 years old, a recent high school graduate, and had just been hired by the U.S Forest Service to work as a fire fighter for the summer. I knew next to nothing about
Why I Am the Way I Am—-Part I
I got to thinking the other day about how where I have lived in my lifetime has determined—well determined why I am the way I am. Recalling the places I have called home (even for just a short time) brought
Hello, Hello, Damn It, Hello?
I guess that there is no bigger sign that you are a true GEEZER than when someone in the now (use your own definition of “now”) generation sees you pull out your flip phone and make a call. A few
Stumbled Across My 50-year Old High School Yearbook
The other day when looking through an assortment of cardboard boxes in my garage (I was looking for some family information to trace my heritage [more on that in a later blog]), I found my high school yearbook from my
THE BUFFALO WAS A GOOD CHOICE
Hail Our New National Mammal Just recently, President Obama signed a law making the bison our country’s first national mammal. The buffalo (I never called them “bison”) isn’t in competition with the bald eagle because the eagle already has national
A Letter from my Dad
It took me a lifetime to understand my dad (at least as much as I could). Now all these years after he died, I have come to see where the man he became was pretty much determined early in his
Nostalgia: Glacier National Park Wildfire
Hearing that a major wildfire, the Reynolds Creek Fire, started burning along the Going-to-the-Sun Highway in Glacier National Park on July 21, brought back a rush of memories of my early days as a fire-fighter. At over 3,000 acres, the
The Dogs Who Have Owned Me—Part I
A few months, well, make that nearly a year ago, we got our most recent dog Sam. Now Sam is the dog who came down with parvo a week after we took him from the animal shelter and then
I Lost a Friend Today
A friend of mine died today. No, my best friend died today and part of me died with him. I could write this and that about him; he was a fine person, he loved life, he was kind to dogs.
Dave’s Philosophy: No Way, Not Today
The other day, I was trying to take a nap, but when I saw a spider crawling on the ceiling directly above me and it got me to thinking. What if the spider lost its grip, tumbled through the air,