We spent Christmas in India this year. I was surprised to see all of the decorations in the hotels and other buildings. There are of course, less and less of us in our family...
I hope that you are all well out in the big world. I am reworking Grandpa Ernie’s Secrets now. It will not be a long process. However we leave on the 19th for the...
We are off to the Stans in April for three weeks. It will cover the silk road and other interesting areas. I will put up a new series of stories about our adventures there...
It has come to my attention that there are a few problems with the book at the moment. There were some bits left out during the formatting process. Please be patient and I will...
As usual, I have gone off half cocked again. That comes from firing the flint lock rifle by the way. There would be no Italy without Guisseppe Garibaldi. There were just a group of...
Day 4 – May22 – Pisa – It’s a long bus ride to Pisa, about five and a half hours. There is plenty to see on the way, however. The country side is beautiful...
May 21 – Day 3 – The name “Rome,” has an unclear and mysterious past. There are several ideas about where the word comes from, but it remains a mystery. Rome has a population...
This trip to Italy was well planned as always, by my wife. I am a good listener and try to be cooperative. Italy has a vast amount of ancient history as well as modern...
It looks like the summit was a failure to find an agreement between the U.S. and North Korea. It may not be over yet, but at least we tried. For those of you that...
If you have read all of my travel blogs you will know that my wife and I visited North Korea right before the Olympics in China. Believe me when I tell you that you...
I am busy reading and writing everyday. I have bills to pay like everybody else. I spend more than half the day working in my home office except when I am playing tennis three...
I was always a very busy child. I would have been called hyperactive if they had the term years ago. I was mostly unfamiliar with the nap. I’m sure I drove my mother crazy...
When I was about seven years old and living in our restaurant, I had a heart breaking experience. Yes, I know we all have heart breaking experiences, but this is one of mine. We...
We have been to many interesting places as you have seen if you have read any of my stories here. You can’t let fear keep you from seeing the world. It is possible to...
My wife’s father’s family are English. We have gone to visit them many times and even thought at one time that we might buy a place there. We love the country and all of...
My wife and I were waiting with another couple to travel to Alaska on a cruise. The husband and I are friends from high school. We have much in common both being left handed...
I am going to put up some strange and interesting travel stories in the next few days. They are all true and happened to my wife and I. They are mostly about coincidences and...
I have always been self employed. I had to advertise my services far and wide to get as much work as possible. I was lucky and lived in Southern California where the population is...
There is no such thing as a dead end job, just people with no imagination or desire for advancement. How many Americans do we have to watch come from nothing and become successful and...
I worked in peoples homes and apartments for forty eight years. For thirty eight years I worked for my self, having apprenticed under my father for ten years before that. In those thirty eight...
First off, this is a true story. I don’t need to make up all of my stories, I had a very colorful life. So my girlfriend and I decide to recycle, and recycle big....
Hey, you don’t have to read this junk. So my brother and I loved donuts. Don’t most of us. Come on. We know your dirty little secret. We see the wrappers in your car...
Alright, here’s another restaurant story. My brother is six years older than I. He was always looking for a way to make a buck. Perhaps times were harder when he was coming up and...
Are you paying too much in taxes? Are the very rich not paying their fair share? Think again. Go to Google and simply enter, “what tax brackets pay how much in taxes”. The truth...
Jan.2 -2019 – I have started the prequel to Grandpa Ernie’s Secrets. I never write from an outline or name my characters before they introduce themselves to me. I create the outline as I...
As I just mentioned, we had some great entertainers in our place over the years. Perhaps they were just starting out or on their way down as I mentioned earlier. My father was in...
Our restaurant was shaped like a “Z”. The bottom of the “Z” was the restaurant, the upright portion was the bar, and the top, was the dancehall. The dance floor was in the middle...
June 5, 2019 – I hired an editor and she looked over this novel of mine. I have worked on it for the last five years while doing other novels that are shorter and...
My brother and I used to boogie board on the north side of HB pier in the seventies and eighties. We were a couple of the old guys out there at the time. We...
January 25 – 2019 – My new version of Granpa Ernie’s Secrets is on Amazon now. It’s a spy novel with all of the current cast of characters from North Korea to Iran, and...
