Lost and Found

Rich, Me, ADM Thad Allen. Chicago, August, 2009 Who’s Calling? While attending a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary conference in Chicago a few years ago, I received a surprising phone call from my father-in-law in California. “Rich lost his cell phone,” Dad reported. “Some guy there at your hotel found it.” Then he gave me the […]


>Lost and Found

> Rich, Me, ADM Thad Allen. Chicago, August, 2009 Who’s Calling? While attending a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary conference in Chicago a few years ago, I received a surprising phone call from my father-in-law in California. “Rich lost his cell phone,” Dad reported. “Some guy there at your hotel found it.” Then he gave me […]


Lost and Found

Rich, Me, ADM Thad Allen. Chicago, August, 2009 Who’s Calling? While attending a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary conference in Chicago a few years ago, I received a surprising phone call from my father-in-law in California. “Rich lost his cell phone,” Dad reported. “Some guy there at your hotel found it.” Then he gave me the […]


Lost and Found

Rich, Me, ADM Thad Allen. Chicago, August, 2009 Who’s Calling? While attending a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary conference in Chicago a few years ago, I received a surprising phone call from my father-in-law in California. “Rich lost his cell phone,” Dad reported. “Some guy there at your hotel found it.” Then he gave me the […]


Freed

Redwoods A Giant’s Company A few weeks ago I struggled to get a collection of words just right. A book proposal contest at my favorite writers conference  had caught my eye and the deadline for submission loomed. This could be big. I wrote, and revised, and reread, and wrote, and revised, and reread for hours. I tucked the proposal […]