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Smart phones are truly amazing. They put the world in your hand, something that was not even dreamed of when I was a kid growing up in the city of Yonkers. Back then transistor radios, stereos with high fidelity sound and console television sets with colored tubes were the consumer wonders of the day. ButContinue reading “Post Cards from the Archipelago”

My daughter Rebecca loves to create and painting is her primary means of expressing that. Lately, she had been selling some of her work – but not just to pay off a parking ticket! Her latest ‘commission’ was for her friend Hannah. Hanna wanted a painting to hang up in her dorm room. She textedContinue reading “Fund Raising – Part 2”

A few weeks ago, I acquired a banker’s box worth of older United States Post Office issued year books; each with a packet of that year’s commemorative stamps. The years of these books run from the mid seventies to the early nineties. They are all in post office fresh condition, never opened, which made thisContinue reading “Stamp Of The Week”

Door Country Wisconsin is a popular vacation spot for the inhabitants of the Archipelago. A visit to this narrow peninsula that juts out into the big waters of Lake Michigan is like stepping into a summer scene painted by Andrew Wyeth. The pace of life there is slow and relaxed. It is a place whereContinue reading “The Summer Retreat”

Last week the City of Chicago issued my daughter a parking situation in the amount of $50. That hurts when you are working a summer job to help pay for university. As mad as my daughter was about it, she saw it as an opportunity to use her creativity. She was going to pay theContinue reading “Fund Raising”

Each island is home to thousands of these flowers soaking up the hot summer sun and the cool rains of passing thunder storms.

Being an avid angler, I find it ironic that I spent time at the fifth largest fresh water lake in the world and did not go fishing once! I swam in it, paddled a kayak across it, rode a ferry over it, and eat fish someone else caught in it. I probably drank the waterContinue reading “Back From Fishing”