195 Centre Street

It's summertime, and the kitchen windows are open and a warm, gentle breeze is blowing the spotless white lace curtains into the room.

P-51 Mustangs

In my opinion, it's the most perfect airplane ever to take to the skies.

And, Me

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a pilot, and fly P-51 Mustangs like Don Gentile, and Ratsy Preddy. So, I took a flying lesson, and found I really didn’t like flying. My Life-Long Dream of Being a Pilot shattered, the next day I wrote my first Award-Winning newspaper column, and, it was published. Yeah, right... I began writing this book in 2015, putting together some ruminations and reflections. I slowly added to it over the years: new things I wrote, old things I discovered I had written, some things that other people wrote that made me laugh out loud, or, knocked my socks off. Welcome to: 195 Centre Street, Buchanan, New York, U.S.A.

Topics and Memories

P-51 Mustangs, B-17 s, B-24 s, B-25 s, PBY s, F-82 s.

Auschwitz, Birkenau, Vietnam, 9/11.

Terciera in the Azores, Montecatini Alto in Tuscany and Rodney Bay on Saint Lucia.

A 1936 Ford Five-Window Coupe and a 1963 Sting Ray Split-Window Coupe.

Walking from Maine to Georgia twice on the world-famous Appalachian Trail.

Allesandro Botticelli, Les Mis, Chateau Petrus.

Winning, paper clips, and farts.

And, A Thousand (Or So) Things You Don’t Know About Heart Attacks...