THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

OCS classmate Bob Phillips is finally almost ready to move into his own private retirement home in South Dakota after years of prosecuting in San Diego. “After we’re in,” he says, “it can blizzard all it wants.” Funny, but it doesn’t look as snowy there as in Dallas or, for that matter, in Georgia.

Well, I’m now being censored at my OCS alumni group email list by the Brooklyn member who took over management of the Yahoo site after the original, Illinois, organizer had a stroke and heart attack.
Whenever I try to reply to a certain California party with whom I have “had words” in the past, my reply [...]

Claude Cooper, our OCS alumni group’s president-for-life, took this shot because he lives nearby. It’s the North Carolina source of the very old New River which flows north to become one of West Virginia’s major water ways. Too many rapids for it to freeze there, but not here in NC with its recent record freezes. [...]

Gad, it’s cold. Hovering at 30 degrees at the Rancho and headed down to 22 overnight. I know it’s worse in most places north and east of us. Tom Higdon, an OCS buddy in southwestern Missouri, emails that it’s 4 degrees where he is, with minus 6 expected. We’re not used to this kind of [...]

Chatter on our OCS email group not so long ago turned to one fellow’s ownership of a forty-nine-year-old Austin-Healey. Reminded me of what I did on our Xmas break in 1967.
After discovering I had been dumped by my college girlfriend for a civilian, I spent the time sleeping in the bath tub of my sister’s [...]

Meaning the mountain man of the old movie, not the running back for the Houston Texans. That’s how our OCS class president-for-life, Claude Cooper, is feeling after several days without power at his rural home in the North Carolina mountains. First the blizzard buried them, then an ice storm blew in and down came the [...]

Fellow OCS grad Tucker Smallwood, who I have known and argued with since college days, opined the other day on our class email list that Barry should withdraw all the regulars while sending in the advisers, accompanied by air, artillery and medevac. Just as he and I did it in Viet Nam. I agreed but, [...]

Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"
Via AlphaInventions.

Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"
Via AlphaInventions.

My self-published book of short stories, available for free in pdf in the upper part of the sidebar on the blog’s main page, or for a mere eleven bucks in paperbook at the link above it, has a new fan. Lucky for me, he even posted an appreciation on his own blog. Thank you.