woody's world

You probably have never heard of Edmund Berkeley. He and his wife were prestigious writers of biographies and he was an excellent botanist a...

Tucked away in an old box we were storing for a neighbor was a beautiful small semiautomatic pistol. I found it rummaging around in the base...

My old friend Laura recently left Tally town to go to one of my old haunts, Charlottesville, Va. I have many memories of C'ville, most ...

Last week we watched Schindler's List again. I have to do this to myself every so often to keep the horror of that time refreshed. It ne...

I just figured out that I have a love/hate relationship with google. Love: the access to nearly instant answers like "I wonder what kin...

Joe Wilson of South Carolina called out "YOU LIE" to the President during the joint address to congress. The content of the disput...

I decided that I would make a rocket. I was about 13 years old and had no idea how to do it, but that never stopped me before. I found a spe...

Max and I went to different Universities and met up summers or holidays or sometimes he would come to Miami from North Carolina for a fishin...

Like so many other late 1950s college kids I decided that playing the guitar would be a good way to attract the opposite sex. It took me a l...

By now every one of my friends knows what I think of tobacco and its use. Fifty years of research, denied by the industry, shows without any...