Friendship. There is nothing so satisfying as a true friend. For me, making friends, and keeping them, is an art I have yet to perfect. Making friends when I was in elementary school was not easy, but I did have three that mattered. One moved away before junior high, another slowly faded from my life until she disappeared entirely in adulthood, and my dearest friend from age 9, Laura’s sister Helen, is still most beloved by me, and I am loved in return. How many non-rural p

Sometime in the 60’s, my parents bought a cottage on a local lake. It was a small but comfortable structure on the canal that backed it, and across the road in front was an enormous field hard by the lake, upon which they had, at one time, contemplated building a house. My dad bought a sailboat and kept it moored in the canal behind the cottage. We always had boats. When I was younger, we had a cabin cruiser which we kept at a riverside resident’s house and which we visited m

It is beyond any doubt that there have been UFOs visiting the earth for decades, if not centuries. For those who still cannot accept this fundamental truth, I refer you to the books written by Richard M. Dolan and the film, “I Know What I Saw” by Jamie Foxx. The film is quite notable for its descriptions by witnesses, and, in one case, accompanying FAA records. Be that as it may, once you have experienced a sighting for yourself, the matter becomes quite personal. The dog men