Last week the coronavirus pandemic in the United States claimed another victim. And, this time, the loss was intensely personal to me and my...

I looked up to my brother from a young age. When I was nine years old, my much older brother gave me a book for my birthday. It was...

Me at 3 Sorry, folks. I'm a bit late in posting. You see, I'm messing about with my website from Wordpress.org back to Wordpress...

No long post this week. I'm off on a kind of family history tour of the tiny West Virginia community of Squire where my parents were bor...