All my years of doing jigsaw puzzles had led me to this moment. It’s too bad trees grow so slow You’re going to think I’m crazy, but I need to tell you the story of when I died. A waitress at an airport bar carefully scrutinizes everyone’s ID  she...

1 C Sugar 1/2 C Soft Butter 1/2 C Sour Cream 1 1 /2 tsp Vanilla Optional 1 tsp lemon juice and/or zest 1 Egg 2 1/2 C Flour 1 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Baking Soda 1/2 tsp Salt Blend sugar and butter Add and mix in sour...

I was driving through a city and a huge storm rolled in.  There were tornadoes dropping down everywhere.  I pulled my car over to the side of the road, opened up my trunk where all the camera gear was, and grabbed a camera. I ran up the street to...

Dylan is walking down a crowded road with his family, it is nighttime. They are on their way to the ferry terminal in a large European town They’re trying to get on the largest, and last, ferry along with everyone else around them People are panicked and confused, but...

In the old Country Market in the town where I grew up Buy a sandwich at the deli Go to pay Realize I don’t have my wallet Tell cashier I will be right back after checking truck I know my wallet is not in the truck because I realize...

Finally had another dream worthy of writing down! Cast Mother Big Brother Middle Brother Little Sister Guy on Horse Part 1 Family on the beach: Mother, oldest son, middle son, youngest daughter.  From oldest to youngest the children are something like 17, 14, 12. It’s the end of the...

Dream #1: Boy is being dragged by the arm by his father (or some sort of authority figure) Chained to a heavy thing and thrown into a pond On the way down the boy manages to free himself, but he knows it will mean death to surface right there,...

Takes place in the 80s some time in a country town. Guy comes home from somewhere.  Jail / College / Army, something like that. He’s always been in kind of a rowdy crowd.  He calls up his old friends to see what they’re doing.  His kid brother wants to...

“Be careful what you wish” I advised my Daughter-in-law’s Sister Elise to consider that old saying before joining  the crew for this trip aboard BETTY ANN. But she was game to do it, so on Sunday 10 May we gather at the Southwest gate for the flight to Charleston, South Carolina....

BRAEDONTON, FL TO CHARLESTON, SC NOTE TO READERS: It is 05 December 2016 and I’ve waited far to long to transcribe my scribbled journal notes into a cohesive accounting of this trip. So I will capture the highlights I can decipher.  Captain Archie’s crew for this leg include “veterans...