PALM GARDEN

7/27/25 My picnic at Palm Garden continues with many cups of ice used for their curative value. Sugar-free syrup decorated my blanket during breakfast to put a little drama into the morning. Pillows falling on the floor were retrieved several times by the noble staff...

SUMMER DAYS

  I skated on the sidewalk around the corner of Grandfather Link’s home. It was summer and I was spending two weeks at their home on Crittenden Drive in Louisville, Kentucky. Standing at the doorway of his shop, I was fascinated by the tools hanging on the wall...

WOLF PEN MILL

When the Collins Family owned the Wolf Pen Mill Estates located out Highway 42 from Louisville, Kentucky, they met me at  a St. James Art show and because of my great respect for the beauty of Kentucky’s woodlands and forest areas, invited me to visit their...

LETTERS

When Brother Paul served with The United States Army’s Screaming Eagles 101st Airbourne Division, he was stationed in South Korea during the War there. Each evening after completing my grade school homework at the McKay Street living Room desk, I would write...

MUHAMMAD ALI

Because he was my son Duion’s friend and classmate at Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky and spent many hours in our Illinois Avenue home, I considered Frank Sadlo to be my fourth son. Frank’s father was a Louisville lawyer and one in the...