by John | Aug 12, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
A Brief Engagement “You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That is your common sense leaving your body.” Unknown When I was twelve, I was enthralled with Karen, eleven, who lived around the corner. We had a somewhat tumultuous...
by John | Jun 17, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
Time to Go! “‘Just in case’ is the curse of packing.” Alexandra Potter Let me say this: I’m terrific at stuffing the travel belongings of five people into a mid-sized SUV. But the very thing that serves me in packing a car hurts me in packing a...
by John | Jun 10, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Blaneys’ Plymouth “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil Mrs. Blaney lived at the end of our street in an old, Spanish style house, whose every room opened to the garden. The house had been the original farm house of the...
by John | Jun 3, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Window That Opened the Door “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” Tim Fargo While in between quarters at UCLA, I had a sudden interest in learning to make stained glass windows. In reality, it wasn’t all that sudden, as I had been...
by John | May 20, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
Funeral Crashers “If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to you.” Christian Bale When I was twenty-four, eating breakfast and reading the paper one Saturday morning, I noticed an obituary about a guy who...
by John | May 13, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
Snake Eyes “Be sincere, be brief, be seated.” Franklin D. Roosevelt My dad and Dick Jappe were great friends. They met as newbie pharmaceutical reps in the mid-fifties when both went to work for the Stuart Company, the maker of Mylanta, Mylicon, and other...
