• A few years back, I was sitting here at this desk listening to some mellow music and reminiscing about an old friend whom I hadn’t talked [...]

  Dear… Part II (an Update)

  9 August 2022
• Here’s my story… About 20 years ago or so, I was at a Salvation Army auction one morning. They were selling of tons (literally) of junk [...]

  What’s the Strangest Thing You Ever Found in a Book?

  2 August 2022
• A buddy of mine, whom I grew up with here in the neighborhood, tooted his horn at me as he drove down my street earlier today. Seeing Ernie [...]

  The Gunpowder Plot – A Reminiscence (Revisited)

  28 December 2021
• When I was a wee lad of 11, a television version of a movie that was based on a speculative book by a fellow named Erich von Däniken was aired [...]

  Chariots of the Gods – a Skeptic’s Reminiscences

  24 August 2021

• Episode Eight | The Vietnam War I was channel surfing earlier this afternoon and stumbled across Ken Burns’ Ep 8 of his Vietnam War series on a [...]

  A Short Rant…

  13 May 2020
• Up until recently, there was a big old oak tree out in my front yard. It was very old. I literally grew up and old with this tree watching over [...]

  My New Friend

  27 March 2014
• Long ago and far, far away in another world called the 1960s a small boy had a Christmas that the man from a much later and much different world [...]

  A Christmas Story

  4 December 2013
• You’d be 39 years old. Miss you, kiddo. 😦 Later… ~Eric

  Happy Birthday, Jason!

  19 July 2013

• I wonder if you still read this blog. I doubt it, actually, but you never know. I was just sitting here a while ago and something made me think [...]

  Dear…

  31 May 2013
• Last night I was thumbing through some books here in my home looking for a specific one. I was looking for Alvin Toffler‘s 1970 treatise on [...]

  The (Almost) Lost Art of Making Brown Paper Grocery Bag Book Covers

  10 December 2012