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A First Christmas in Koru The picture shows a family group with friends in1951. My father is holding me in the back row and Alan is wearing...

The First Thanksgiving An answer to Dr. Clement Moore - for my American family The first year was over, they'd settled the land. Now Ply...

A Man Who Will Listen A story from Ian MacLeod of Western Australia - He was approached while wearing his father’s battle medals by an old s...

Ohannes (John) Makhdomian has been repairing my shoes for thirty years. He has a shop in the Farmers Market on Fairfax. He is famous now f...

Old Glory Faded For City National Bank, and any one else who flies our nation’s flag and forgets to take care of it. Sing this to the old ...

The Kirkin’ O’ the Tartan Saturday November 4th 2006 Photo courtesy of Karen Johnson Why do we do this? Why did a small group of Saint Andre...

Dr. William Wanamaker M.D. my patient and friend who sponsored me into the Royal Society of Medicine. 1.21.1917. - 29. 8.2006. ...

Every now and then, the fervor of the ‘born again’ gets up my nose. I believe I am actually jealous of the acuity with which they can trot ...

This slide show has been going the rounds, and I like it a lot. It reminded me of a Culmination Ceremony I attended when my daughter was si...

Ever since I had that first cup of chai in the guards van on the East African Railways and Harbors train going down to Mombasa, I have tried...

Misconceptions For years I have been correcting people who say that George Washington’s teeth were made of wood. They were not. They were c...

Don Richardson’s little book “The Secrets of the Koran” is a quick read, but once finished it has left me mulling over the implications of w...

This morning on my way to drop my boys off at school, I stopped to buy gas for my Honda Odyssey minivan. It was an Arco station, nothing unu...

The bird house, in the shape of a western-town dental office Has hung vacant for the last two seasons, Just as countless others, Which were ...

This week-end we all pause to take a breath and peer backwards in astonishment at how fast this year is evaporating. We are also particularl...

There is nothing else like it, in fact its my drug of choice - a cup of Rosey Lee . It’s my heart starter in the morning and a comfort at ...

The year is advancing at a pace, and the persimmon tree is wearing a new cloak of bright green. When the broad leaves start to turn gold And...

The first step to "A Biting Chance" 1972 There are many perfectly acceptable ways of coming to America, and let’s face it people h...

Frances Cecilia McLeod My father died some years ago now, and the initial grieving at his departure has mellowed into an irrationally rich t...

The Royal Albert Hall holds a particular significance for me, for it was there that the presentation of Graduates to Her Majesty the Queen M...