Monthly Archives: August 2019

When Kelly was in high school, she played on the Paul VI softball team. Let me preface this story by saying they had a very good team. I attended all the games I could and one afternoon the game was … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, during one of our far-ranging discussions, it somehow came up that one of my high school classmates’s son was the lone American on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur … Continue reading →

A day or so ago, I mentioned buying a Corvette with my American Express card. While I’m on the subject of Corvettes, it turns out that a Corvette isn’t only the car of the Williamsons, it’s also the car of … Continue reading →

I just got an Apple Card — just what I need — another credit card. The first credit card I ever had was American Express. I got my first American Express card sometime around 1960… there wasn’t very many places … Continue reading →

We live in Shepherdstown, West Virginia… A lot of people have never heard of Shepherdstown and when we tell them it’s just down the road from Harpers Ferry, they almost always say, “Oh, yea.” Most people know of Harpers Ferry … Continue reading →

President Eisenhower is noted for establishing the Interstate Highway System. He’s also noted for something else that’s probably more important to the country than interstate highways — the establishment of the CRITICOMM System. Here’s a little background in case you … Continue reading →

We were driving the other day and, I’m not sure why, but I asked Claire what is the difference between a Church and a Chapel. Turns out that neither one of us really knew the answer. We attend St. Agnes … Continue reading →

We were talking a few days ago about our first cars and the best and worst car we ever owned… some of us had old Studebakers, and beat up Chevys and Fords, but no one had a “foreign” car when … Continue reading →

The topic of the day after golf last week was Maine. One of our regular golfers spends his summers in Maine, and Kelly, Chris, Emily and the pups are vacationing in Maine with the Giffords. Anyhow, someone said that our … Continue reading →

  A number of years ago, I had quite a bit of work to do in Jakarta, Indonesia and before returning to Manila, where we lived at the time, I had a couple of things to do in Medan. Medan … Continue reading →