CRITTER CAPERS: Pheasant Under Vest PART I

When we lived on the farm in Mount Pleasant, my dad was an avid hunter. He trained a Beagle, Bootsie, who was the family dog, to be quite a hunter. She could trail rabbits and flush out pheasants like nobody’s business. On this day, dad had a hankering for some pheasant. So, the plan was [...]

GOSPEL MUSIC IS GOOD BUT BLACK GOSPEL MUSIC ROCKS!

Growing up in North Braddock exposed me to r&b music, which would not have happened had we stayed in the predominantly white Mount Pleasant. My older sister, Diane, and younger brother, Dan, embraced this music more quickly than I did. But it did not take long for me to warm up to the quartet sounds [...]

My brother Dan

I went out to breakfast last week with my younger brother, Dan. My wife and I were vacationing at our cottage near where Dan lives. This post is prompted by me reflecting on who he is individually, as part of our family as well as my relationship with him. As I’ve mentioned before, I am [...]