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Day One Hundred Eighty-Eight “Lists”

February 21, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

Come on along and sing Santa’s familiar tune with me: ‘She’s making a list, checking it twice; cause her ole’ memory is no longer precise; She relies on lists every day!‘ That pretty much sums it up for me. Sadly, the older I get, the more I find myself dependent on lists. As we …

Day One Hundred Eighty-Seven “The Value of History”

April 24, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

‘We must always look forward, but we have to understand our history in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past. I have seen too many instances where people continue to pursue wrong courses of action because they do not take time to think critically about what has happened in the past. Those …

Day One Hundred Seventy-Five “Stay at the Post”

February 8, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

The date was February 7, 1943, in the midst of World War II, the day that the legend of a hero was birthed off of the Solomon Islands. Howard Walter Gilmore was a submarine commander in the United States Navy, captain of the USS Growler, skillfully leading four Pacific patrols during World War II. On …