State park trail entry point.

Journey Home

Tales from the pilgrimage.

radio

  • Garage Media Memories

    The garage will always be a special place of memory. It doesn’t matter whether it is my current garage, or some future garage should we move. I carry my garage life with me wherever we might go. I made the sign in the 1980s. It invokes the memory of working in the garage with our… Read more

  • Fiona Ritchie Gets Axed

    While in the kitchen making soup this week, Iowa Public Radio announced new weekend news programming. Someone had to be removed to make room in the lineup. It was sad when they announced it was Fiona Ritchie whose Thistle and Shamrock I’ve been following for many years. She has been a mainstay of my weekend… Read more

  • Radio Still On

    My earliest memories of radio are of neighbors across the alley listening to Chicago baseball games. They turned the volume loud enough we could hear the sports announcer yet not make out what they were saying. It created a summer neighborhood ambience in the pre-JFK years. Today a radio is on when I’m working in… Read more