woody's world

My mother was born in 1903 in Milwaukee. Her father was a German cooper and her mother was a Gypsy. A real Gypsy. Mother had had 3 sisters, ...

In my distant past I was a "yute", as they say in Brooklyn. In the early 50's there was an arcade game that involved shooting ...

Today I saw her again. See was dressed the same as all the other times I have seen her. Sweat pants, running shoes, some kind of pull-over t...

Years ago there was a columnist that occasionally included a column called "Things I Learned on the Way to Other Things" or someth...

IPA. Now that is a word (is it a word? I=India, P=Pale, A=Ale. Put together it's a word to me, or maybe an acronym?) that causes a deep ...

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...