People who are planning their “once in a lifetime” trip to Scotland often ask my advice. I go there nearly every summer, so I’m always happy to share some of the good – and bad! – decisions I have made on my trips so they can make own trips more fun. The first thing I [...]

To the north, water, marsh and sky merged into one colossal swirling, flashing grayish, black mass, erasing any trace of a horizon. Safe for the moment in the bay, we listened for our quarry. Ahead of the storm, the water around us slicked into a quiet greenish-gray sheen in the oppressive late summer afternoon heat. [...]

In the fall of 1996, I received an assignment to Egypt. It was a diplomatic assignment, advising senior Egyptian Air Force officers and flying as an instructor pilot in F-16s at a remote location approximately two hours north of Cairo. Although this may sound like a great job, initially I wasn’t very thrilled about the [...]

Long, long ago in a parish far, far away, my older sister planned the perfect Easter weekend family activity. “Daddy,” she said, “you and John get up early Saturday morning, go out into the swamp and catch a bunch of crawfish. Come home about noon to clean them, so Mom can cook them. Tell her [...]

My Daddy always used to say, “You can either go fishing or take a kid fishing. You can’t do both at the same time. Decide what you are going to do and stick with it.” An original axiom or not, his words proved profound, as anyone who ever fished with small children can attest! Obviously, [...]

Note: All photos in this story by Ed Silverman from video tape. It is mid-September, 1996, and Rhoda Alben-Aronson, the light of my life, and I have just landed in Bergen, Norway to join a small group of only 12 persons for a combined land and sea tour of Norway which will keep us occupied [...]

Thanksgiving is the only holiday set aside just for men, which may account for why it’s widely ignored by merchants, entertainers and even greeting card companies that constantly invent special occasions to sell more cards. When was the last time you heard any Thanksgiving carols? Who can forget these old favorites “Hark the Stuffed Turkey [...]

“Wow! Check out the curves on that model,” Ed Diot exclaimed eying the object of our desire as a curvaceous young blonde woman passed near a bass boat. “Have you ever seen such a shapely vision?” “Forget about it, Ed,” I cautioned my friend. “You could never afford such a gorgeous manifestation of perfection. Besides, [...]