We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:57:48 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification As a youngster, I'd have done the same. Now... I'd take the tea and cookies.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:02:49 -0600 It is amazing how we sometimes look back at the past and see the history that we missed for one reason or another, then wish that we could go back and have a redo on that day. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html#comment-37050 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html#comment-37050 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:29:45 -0600 She didn't want any truck with tea ("That's for fancy people..."), so I stayed for coffee and cookies. And it was *me* that was cold, having gone through the ice and blessing the forethought that made me carry a hockey stick whenever I went skating, even if it wasn't to play hockey. I read letters from a Union soldier who never made it back from Chancellorsville. I met a raccoon that avoided people but wasn't averse to begging a piece of cookie from a ten-year old. I learned how to keep a coal fire going in a Franklin stove. And I learned that if I looked into her window and didn't see the lamp burning, she'd take it kindly if I were to notify the doctor. On the day I didn't see the lamp burning, the raccoon met me at the door and didn't beg for a cookie... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html#comment-37004 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/taking_the_road_less_traveled.html#comment-37004 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:26:33 -0600