COLUMNS and NEWS ARTICLES: For most of my career, I was an editor, fine-tuning the work of others. But I never lost my desire to write and to tell a good story. These are a few of the columns and news articles I wrote during the course of my career as a journalist.
The Letter in a Recipe Box - saluting Mart's Uncle Hugh
Dad, Death and Dora - why we hate Nazis
Farewell to the Texas Prison Rodeo - a day inside the walls
Leaving Tracks Through Life - on the dunes at White Sands
Thanks, Bob Hope, For Remembering - the column I almost didn't write
South Rim By Sixty - a quest to reach the top
Rainy Night in North Carolina - on friendships
Above it All at Acoma - a trip into the past
Where the Buffalo Roamed - taking back the prairie
Unheralded Sacrifice - saluting a forgotten hero of D-Day
Fewer Half-Read Books - a celebration of reading
Silence in the Gardens of Stone - reflections on Arlington
Milk Run on the Nine-O-Nine - a rattling good time in a B-17
Saigon, Sweat and Spades - my aversion to card games
The Empty Grave in Mrs. Lee's Garden - a Civil War story
Michael Davis O'Donnell - Vietnam's warrior-poet
World War II Heroes - finally have their own monument
Forged By War - memorials to veterans refuse to let us forget
Flash in the Pan - an airman my grandmother adopted... who never came home
Cousins, Kindness and Enos Slaughter - a salute to cousins everywhere
The Nuts and Bolts of Life - lessons learned in a tool box
I'll be Home for Christmas - this song made my mother cry
The Finer Points of Plowing - a moment of Zen on the tractor
The Power of Encouragement - finding encouragers in your life
Knowing When to Get Off - lessons about hard work
Sky Vu In My Rearview Mirror - on going home again
Passages and Transitions - on moving on