By Bill Duncan The View From Here
Marines are a strange breed. Some will say we got brain-washed in boot camp, but personally I think it goes deeper than that. It ends up being a band of brothers like no other. I say that knowing full well there is a band of sisters who [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
I am a soupmaker and hardly a week goes by that I don’t have a large soup pot on the stove with nutritious ingredients boiling away and making the whole house smell like my mother’s kitchen. The one I remember most had a wood cookstove for which as a [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
This Friday, March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. They say that on this day everyone is Irish — even an old Scot such as me. On a day honoring good St. Patrick, I’d be willing even to forgive the Irish for playing a Leprechaun trick on the Scots by [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Like in probably every household in America, the mail includes dozens of catalogs. Usually, they are addressed to the family comptroller, my wife. For those interested in a scientific study, that is because she orders from catalogs. I don’t.
I do like to thumb through the catalogs just [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
A reader wrote to ask me why I no longer published my e-mail address at the end of my column. I did publish it for a number of years and got a good feedback from readers.
I would love to continue publishing it, except for one reason — [...]
