Tommy’s Window on the World

My first brush with what I would later call a “scary movie” happened when I was five. At that age,…

I have lived on this earth for over 31,000 days—eighty-five years of mornings, mistakes, prayers, and small victories. Lately, my…

I was born eleven months before the start of World War II, into a country already bracing for sacrifice. My…

I have three biological grandchildren and four “bonus” grandchildren through my wife, seven bright points of light in our lives.…

My father left this world in 1986, after thirteen long years of illness that slowly took his strength but never…

For most of my life, my favorite sport was football — specifically NFL football, the kind where enormous men in…

The night sky over Clell, Virginia, hung low with stars, a frosty bowl of light over the narrow valley. The…