…through The Valley of Elah Well, I went and did it again. That is, I put a film on my Netflix queue without any idea of what it was really about. But I got lucky this time with In The Valley of Elah. Based on actual events, it stars Tommy Lee Jones and...
When it finally quit going wrong Just good folks. That’s how I’d describe the 150 or so people, overwhelmingly Canadian, who attended our Reist/Archer family reunion near the little farming communities of Didsbury and Olds north of Calgary. Sure, there...
…except when it mattered. With a tip’o the hat to that rode-hard-put-away-wet cowboy crooner cum hippie, Willie Nelson, I’m: “On the road again, I just can’t wait to get on the road again . . . Goin’ places that I’ve never...
BRAHMAN BULL! Jim Lovell is one of three men that, for years, has led the Bible study that I attend on Wednesday mornings. Jim’s an interesting guy. He grew up on the Baptist buckle of the Bible belt of western Oklahoma. Somehow got to Denver where he joined...
Against machine guns and poison gas After dinner here in Oban, our gang walked back to our B&B along the water front, past a small, grassy square. There were about 20 men and women with bag pipes and drums, playing, marching and rehearsing for what, I assumed was...
