I used to have a house in Rodanthe, on the windswept Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is a wild place. When you look out upon the ocean there you’re gazing upon the ‘Graveyard of The Atla...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2022/12/25/christmas-or-to-each-his-or-her-own/
On this date in 1903, on the cold sands of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, into a frigid gusting 27 mile-per-hour wind that froze standing water, two men flew for the first time while piloting...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/the-wright-brothers/
My apologies. It has been an excruciatingly long time since I’ve blogged, but sometimes life overwhelms. I won’t go into details because they’re boring. Everyone has their ‘story’ and I...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/long-time-no-see-watersong-sets-sail/
This post is something different for me. I generally do not indulge in book reviews, largely because as a writer, I find that if I read too many other books it adversely affects my own writing, m...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/the-last-pilgrim/
I do not know why I am drawn to the Great War. I have edited and upgraded this annual post since last year, but the sentiments remain the same. —————————————————...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/one-hundred-years/
It is with great sadness that I type these words, at the passing this morning of a great friend of mine, my big black cat Fred. His passing was sudden, with no apparent sickness, no dimming of fa...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/passing-of-a-true-friend/
It has been entirely too long since I’ve posted here. My only excuse is that for a while I’ve been overcome by life events. There are more such events on the horizon, but now whilst there’s...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/back-in-the-saddle-again/
Ninety eight years ago tomorrow, on the 11th hour of the 11th month of the 11th day of 1918, the guns of the Great War fell silent. Here in America it used to be known as Armistice Day, but now i...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/when-the-guns-fell-silent/
I know this sounds lazy, and it may very well be, but the post I did last year for the anniversary of D-Day still sounds right to me. I would just like to add that the D-Day invasion was not just...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/anniversary-of-d-day-invasion/
I’d like to take this post to expressly thank everyone who read my little scribblings. When I’m safe and secure in my little writer’s garret my ideas feel great, but out in the open where t...
https://byrdwords.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/post-a-to-z-follow-up/