The gift of warmth

Land Line Now news anchor Reed Black has a neat story for this Thanksgiving week. It will air Nov. 24 and Nov. 28 on Sirius XM, The Road Dog Channel, 6-7 p.m. Central.Reed says it’s the story of an Iowa couple who truck together and participate in the Trucker Buddy program. But here’s a secret, and it’s one the Trucker Buddy class doesn’t know. This husband and wife trucking team go an extra mile

Recollections of JFK

Sometimes in life there seems to be a thread hooking all the twists and turns together that causes a person to end up at a particular place at a given time. Maybe that’s how I ended up in a TV lounge at Naval Air Station in Brunswick, ME, on Oct 22, 1962, and in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. If I figure it out, I’ll e-mail you.I was about 19, in the Navy and glued to the TV along with everyone else

A salute to Veterans Day

Veterans Day really started for me the day before when Land Line posted their Veterans Salute in the online magazine and featured veteran members on Land Line Now on Sirius XM. Besides an online editorial, they posted a handful of OOIDA members’ experiences in the military – including yours truly. Since I was in the service during peace time, some of their stories about being in harm’s way made

Lorem ipsum?

Unless you are in the publishing business, you have no earthly idea what “lorem ipsum” means.Years ago, editors used to yell “gimme 12 inches of copy for page two” and you’d measure that up by column inch. With the advent of computerized page design, it’s “gimme 540 words.” In order to know that exact number, the designer fills the space with “dummy type.”Lorem ipsum dolar sit amet, consectutur

Trucker Buddy the Cowpoke way

Our chocolate Cocker Spaniel “Dudley” was first. Then the truck, my wife Geri and I were in a three-way tie for second by our Trucker Buddy class on who they wanted to see first when we visited the school.We had a Trucker Buddy class of fifth-graders in Tyler, TX, for two years. Going in we knew nothing about it, but I could see that to do it right it would have to involve a school visit near the

A town called Skidmore

About 20 yellow sticky notes sit crumpled on my desk this afternoon, evidence of my effort to mark interesting sections of a true crime novel about Skidmore, MO.The November edition of Land Line includes a feature story on the farming and trucking town of Skidmore, MO.Skidmore has unfortunately become famous for being the site of several awful crimes, including the 1981 shooting of noted bully