veterans

Lately it has been a dreary time around here. It has been raining and I have thinking a lot about loss. Why is it that the rain and gloo...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

This image was posted as a creative commons on Pixabay when I got it. Lets go back a ways. In 2007 when I was IN the VA Homeless Vetera...

The other day I was listening to the news and heard a blurb about Lady Gaga and her concert in Brazil. It got me thinking that I have no ...

One of the things I enjoy a great deal these days is sitting on the back patio and taking in all the flowers we have blooming. It is all...

Sunday started off really well. It was Mother's Day here in the U.S. It was time to celebrate my wife hauling around my two progeny insi...

Saturday was a bit of a blur for me. I couldn't sleep well Friday night, so most of the day was spent napping in my recliner. It was a ra...

I picked this little piece up over the webs not long ago. It is the 1938-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar. Like all coins I purchase, I soon...

A while back I made a purchase of some old silver certificates from the 1930's, which I will share at a later date, along with the below ...

The other day I wrote a post about how I was a little let down by our species. Yeah, it’s hard not to feel that way sometimes—especially...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

Bailey was not just a dog. She was my best friend, my late-night confidante, and the calm in my storm. She was one of my most important ...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

Lately I have become sour about our species. Yeah, that's some heavy stuff. That type of disillusionment is also hard to shake once it s...

Today I will be sharing an 1872-C 1 Silbergroschen. Picked this up after seeing a cool Prussian coin shared by @thebighigg. I figured I d...

Some of you who follow me know my dog Bailey is my "person". When they say dog is man's best friend, I take it literally. She ...

Initially this post as going to be a specific reflection. But, like many of my thoughts these days, focus was lost, thoughts lost and w...

Image source: CoinSnap App TOday I am sharing a piece from my coin collection I just picked up from an online seller. It is the 1914-D In...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

Image Source: CoinSnap App For my first post in this community I would like to share a recent addition to my coin collection that has a l...

Well, we finally finished some of the lanscaping work. Especially the centerpiece in the front yard pictured above. It is going to get s...

Hoping this weeks coin share might be a little interesting to @dbooster. I picked this up on eBay for about $20, which is a somewhat over...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

Spring is here for us finally. Yes, there is still a chill occasionally in the air, but the grass is green and growing. So much so that ...

Somewhere, over the Atlantic We left Atlanta around Midnight on March 28th, it was dark outside, I was miserable because of my stupid CO...

Back in January I shared the 1923 One Florin with KIng George V's portrait on the obverse. In the post I briefly discussed how he looked ...

... disabled veterans. The replacement "VA LIFE" is terribly expensive, and the premium waiver has been removed entirely for 1...

Every Sunday, I choose five posts from my Thoughtful Daily Post Community; these posts will have been shared in the community. Or they wi...

Some of you may know that French Indochina doesn’t exist anymore, but at one time it was a colonial union made of the modern-day countrie...

Yesterday we conducted our first mowing of the year. The yard didn't really need it yet, but the small amount of weeds sprouting up nece...