Today, while waiting in line at the National Archives, Dad & I met a couple who lives in Bermuda, but -get this- hails from Willoghby, Ohio, not 20 miles from my hometown of Northfield, in the suburbs-of-suburbs-of Cleveland. I love small world vacation stories.
My fav small world vacation story: It was 2003, and stepsister Kathleen and I […]
Archive for December, 2006
“Aunt Becky” skating with Nate.
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Today, we (Dad & I) went briefly into DC, toured our way around Union Station and the Capitol Building, and then met some family friends for ice skating.
At the rink, Dad watched while I played “Aunt Becky” and helped one of the 5-year-olds around the rink. Dad later said, “I watched the faces skating by. […]
We can’t seem to finish a war. We again let ourselves get tricked into waging war on foreign soil, and again a clever groups of guerrillas is stymying (is that a word?) progress toward the (few) good results that could have been achieved.
I don’t compare the start of Iraq to Vietnam — Iraq was started by […]