This text message out of the blue from my good friend Jerry appeared in my inbox. It got me to thinkin.’ Back in the day, […]
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The crashing of the waves…
Recently a Scottish friend emailed me his description of a storm on ‘Bervie beach. In the seventies, for a few years, my family and I […]
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Back from Scotland: April/May 201906/01/2017-6:18 am At Angela’s in Deer Park, (IL) sitting in the back garden by the pool, enjoying the sound of an […]
Continue readingDID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT THE PARIS OLYMPICS ?
Michael SpragueCapitol Commission ChaplainMandeville, LA Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1982. It depicted the true story of Eric Liddell winning […]
Continue readingA lesson…
One of the great things about being in Scotland may appear to be a little thing. But I read somewhere that someday the little things […]
Continue readingDavid Robertson on Scottish politics….and that of Western Civilization.
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Continue readingIts you and me Babe..
And then there were two… Twas the nights before Christmas and all through our house, it seemed a lot was stirring. There were brothers and […]
Continue readingAh, charity shops…
Along with the many freedoms we formerly enjoyed, the British have given us charity shops. Charity, it turns out is a Biblical concept and a […]
Continue reading“Good morning…again”
For some reason, I woke up a bit on the grumpy side this morning. It was a typical damp, cloudy, drizzly morning here in Scotland, […]
Continue readingConveyers or the pop-up thingies…
It’s amazing what can bring people of varying nationalities, varying financial conditions, some rich and others not, varying importance, some important others not so much, […]
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