Monthly Archives: September 2011

In the night we journeyed to Istanbul.  Lulled to sleep by the engine vibrations and the stellar dinner, most of us slept very well.  Some early risers climbed from our comfortable berths before 6:30am (7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time) … Continue reading →

14 September: Gradually, all on the pilgrimage “In the Footsteps of Paul” assembled at JFK airport on Long Island.  Moving through British Airways lines was for some quick (the early arrivals); for the later others, snaking along, facing one another … Continue reading →

  You may have thought the only demerits you ever met were the ones which kept you after school.  Let me disabuse you. On a Sunday afternoon, having given praise and thanks to God, a five hour drive from Silver Spring … Continue reading →

Rain, rain, go away!  Come again some other day! So goes the song.  So went the drive to the nation’s capitol on Wednesday, September 7.  The goal: Harry and Pat Dudley’s home.  The actual destination: the Archdiocese of Washington Administrative … Continue reading →

For 40 miles the Middle Delaware River passes between low forested mountains with barely a house in sight. Then the river cuts through the mountain ridge to form the famed “Water Gap.”  The Delaware Water Gap is on the border … Continue reading →

Columbus is the capital of Ohio (oh, that’s a great beginning — for a social studies lesson!)  It sits squarely in the center of the state, not unlike Indianapolis.  Both are “artificial cities”, designed and constructed to be state capitals. The … Continue reading →

2 September 2011 THE SETTING: In the 1948 musical “Paleface”, the world was introduced to the Oscar-winning song, “Buttons and Bows”.  It’s initial line, you may remember, was “East is East and West is West, and the wrong one I have … Continue reading →