WRIGHTS LANE

Wonderful story by equally wonderful daughter I have written several stories about the Martin family, originally of rural Turnerville and ne...

I n the two years and five months that I contributed to my "Wrights Lane...Come On In"  web site it has had viewers from (at last ...

A SPECIAL REMEMBRANCE DAY TRIBUTE.   (*NOTE: ADJUST SOUND DOWNWORD INITIALLY FOR OPENING CANNON BURST, THEN TURN UP FOR PERIODIC AUDIO NARR...

JUST SOME OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE GOSPEL MUSIC THAT KIND OF SETS THE TONE FOR PRESENT REALIGNMENT OF PRIORITIES IN MY LIFE.  I WANT NOTHING...

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H ere I go again.  One last "housekeeping" effort in my racial discrimination tangent of the past two weeks. I have been advocat...

C ount me among the majority who at one time felt it absolutely unnecessary to apologize for the many transgressions of past generations, p...

I hadn't paid a visit to my alter ego, Old Humphrey, in quite some time.  Oddly enough, it was a bout of indigestion the other day tha...

Rosanne:   Was it Lyle Underbay who hit the game-winning home run for the Blue Jays yesterday? Me:   No honey.  It was Lyle Overbay!

W e bought Lucy a new bed a couple of days ago and she leaves it only to eat and to do her business outside.  It's nice when people (and...

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They say to live every day like it was your last, to which I say boloney !  Live every day like it was your first ...It takes the pressure o...

"As for me, I don't go places I'm not wanted," Ruth Lambkin, high school student, 1954. "You cannot force a man to...

R osanne and I have been good to ourselves the past couple of days, maybe too good. After six months of fairly strict dieting and weight ...

I t was quite by accident that I stumbled across a 56-year-old piece of film the other day.  It gave me a new perspective on a period in t...

I have been preparing a number of special "artist's recognition" tributes for the Dresden Virtual History Group.  The most re...

I thought that I would have some fun with these photos of my Grandfather Nelson Perry (top) in our garden in Dresden in the late summer of ...

I n taking a trip around the horn a time or two, most of us have managed to gain some perspective on life and have learned to focus on what ...

Dramatic changes in weather conditions around the Great Lakes this past weekend saw temperatures drop drastically and winds reach gale-for...

I n my last post I wrote about "being one's own best friend" and a motivation to be personally "good enough".  It wa...

I find myself frequently saying rather off-handidly about someone, "Oh, they are their own worst enemy."  I have even thought the...

I 've had a lot of wild life visit my back yard in Southampton, but never a Snapping Turtle.  This young lady was just passing through f...

W e are such smug human beings when it comes to humane pretenses yet we live in a world rife with man's inhumanity to man .  Sadly, inhu...

I don't know if anyone is interested or even cares, but since I made an issue of it in my last post (see item below), I cannot contain ...