by Doug Thompson | Dec 4, 2020 | Musings
Sixteen years ago this month, wife Amy and I closed on the purchase of our current home in Floyd County, the third home we’ve lived in during nearly 41 years of marriage and, we hope, our final domicile. It is a New England “saltbox” style...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 30, 2020 | FUBAR, Musings, Politics
Odd how places of one’s past crop up later in life. My paternal grandparents retired to an area on Lake Panasoffkee in Sumter County in central Florida, not far from Wildwood and near where the Sunshine State Parkway toll road begins at its intersection with...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 18, 2017 | Musings
In March of 1944, a young sailor and electrician’s mate in the Navy, and battle-tested veteran of World War II, in the Pacific walked into the gas rationing office at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia to seek extra coupons to ride his Harley-Davidson to Tampa,...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 20, 2010 | Musings, News
Father’s Day is always bittersweet. My father died when I was nine months old, a victim of an industrial accident where he worked in Tampa, Florida. My only memories of my father came from a box of photos and stories told by my mother. My father existed as an...
