Tiny homes are becoming popular with seniors wanting the convenience of suburban life during the week but loving the mountains or sea shore on weekends.
Published: Friday, April 29th, 2016 @ 2:07 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I suggest spending a lot of time playing with your unloaded gun while watching TV. Read the instructions and open and close the cylinder again and again.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 3:19 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I hope to receive my carry permit next week and unlike driver license, education will begin after receiving the okay.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 2:04 am
By: Ted McDonald
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We celebrate specific wars for 50 years afterward: until most of the veterans have passed on. West Point students skim over the battles and weapons of past wars but concentrate on the new drones and laser killing machines available today.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 4:37 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Sad but true that most of the beautiful courthouses are surrounded by abandoned small towns and county business is conducted in new buildings miles away.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2016 @ 7:52 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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My article Fake Love is about working robots with no personality but obviously apps will appear to download a personality.
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 9:24 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Summary: Start talking to Seniors about Medicare before you retire. Trial and error experience is easier to absorb than reading information provided by government.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:34 am
By: Ted McDonald
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FBI agent, John Douglas helped develop psychological profiling techniques.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:31 am
By: Ted McDonald
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When seconds matter, the police are minutes away.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 6:28 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I enjoy Southern Comfort conversations with Stella and we respect each other's perspectives on the meaning of life.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:31 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Conscientious Objectors (COs) could serve as Chaplains or Medics and op out of carrying weapons.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 10:52 am
By: Ted McDonald
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As the Vietnam series nears completion, I was looking for another Bobby Tony article to plagiarize and found this one.
Published: Sunday, September 27th, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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In the famous book Imation of Christ, the Monk advises us to avoid worldly distraction like business, family and possessions in order to concentrate on the Lord’s work.
Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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After Navy boot camp, I attended Tech school with half Marine students and a few Marine instructors and on ship they provided Brig (jail) guards.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 5:04 am
By: Ted McDonald
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After my draft physical, I called a friend who joined the Air Force and hoped to work on dry land in Japan or Thailand.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 3:57 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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A Marine RVN Vet Helicopter door gunner said the Warrant officers were enlisted guys who finished boot camp, 10 weeks of Warrant Officer training and 18 month of helicopter flight training. You had to be at least 18 years old.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Why reinvent the wheel when you can borrow one? I will write some Depression Era stories like Bobby Tony family articles.
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 7:57 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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In 2001, the voters in Mississippi decided the keep the stars and bars on their flag.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Rich young folks have horses and ride with the dogs during the day.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 1:08 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Frankly, I and personal assistant, Trixie, are tired of the slow process of getting published.
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 7:27 am
By: Ted McDonald
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There were entertainers in all branches of the service who seemed to escape the day to day routines by practicing among buddies while recluses disappeared to read book or write home.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Lt. David Ayers is using a Mortar plot board to locate the target and develop the settings for the Mortar crew. It does not require a map -- just location of the mortar and the location of the Forward Observer.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: Ted McDonald
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No battle field action is reported in this introduction to the jungle. Combat veterans provide the books and movies.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:27 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Little boys go to Summer Camp. Men go to Army Camp.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 6:22 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I took this photo while serving in the USN in 1967.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 7:17 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Most Southern family history books have retyped CSA letters.
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 3:55 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I visited the Army recruiter before joining the Navy to see if I could stay home as a conscientious objector but since I was not a seminary student or a member of some strange organization he suggested that I volunteer for the dangerous job of Medic and be exempt from carrying a weapon.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:39 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I was aboard the USS Enterprise in 1969 when another disaster occurred. I say another because almost weekly something would happen.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Many small rural churches raise money by printing and selling cookbooks. My cousins published Cousins Cookbook for such a purpose and sold 2000 copies.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 12:34 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I read a book about the estimated 50,000 Black soldiers who wore the CSA uniform and fought in numerous battles.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:02 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Many of our old mills have become homes, cafes, or fallen to the ravages of the water that powered them.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 8:27 am
By: Ted McDonald
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