Taps

  While visiting my son and his family in southern Texas, I took a photo of the young soldier who was living on a military base with his wife and children. The base played taps each evening over a loud speaker system as the American flag was lowered. Everyone who...

Baths

         Before the advent of the modern hot water heater, preparing for a bath began with boiling a teakettle full of water on our McKay Street gas cook stove. After the water was poured into the white bathtub in the small bathroom next to the kitchen, cold...

Ukraine

  Lift up your sons from cradle rest And give them bread. This day they need defend Our shores, our green of hills. Need fight as men need fight, God’s name upon their lips. Need die as men need die, Helmet on each cross. Call your daughters from their dreams And...

Geiger Trailer Park

  I stepped off the bus in August 1957 to start a new life in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Looking up the street I noticed signs of Bars and Hock Shops. Glancing in the opposite direction I noted establishments of the same order. I walked into the Bus Station to...