by John Curtis | Oct 15, 2013 | John's Blog
We have all grown up with the understanding of who our founding fathers were and that certain explorers were instrumental in discovering North America. One of the explorers so revered, has a national holiday the 2nd Monday of October. Christopher Columbus was a con...
by John Curtis | Oct 9, 2013 | John's Blog
Let’s call him Tommy. Tommy waited in ambush for the driver of the refrigerated delivery truck to go inside the grocery store. Within seconds the boy was joy riding through the city in the five ton truck. The police were chasing Tommy. He couldn’t see them,...
by John Curtis | Oct 1, 2013 | John's Blog
We have a Congress that would rather play right wing ideology than make our country better. It’s much like the kid who takes his ball and goes home because he is losing. Where is the honor in furloughing 800,000 employees? Where is the honor in costing our country...
by John Curtis | Sep 25, 2013 | John's Blog
Not too long ago, the honorable Rep. Michele Backmann R-MN, declared “there are terrorists in the House of Representatives.” She may be correct. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, our economy hick-upped for years, the near collapse of World finances,...
by John Curtis | Sep 19, 2013 | John's Blog
We dug deep in our backpacks to get to the tightly wrapped plastic bags that held our going to wedding clothes. Ironically, they fared well in the bottom of backpacks and required little attention. We arrived by taxi at the rented nightclub. Matt and Michalina met...
by John Curtis | Sep 17, 2013 | John's Blog
On our way to a Polish wedding, we arrived by train in Bydgoszcz, Poland, half way between Warsaw in the middle, and Gdansk on the Baltic Sea. Our son and his fiancé met us with hugs and kisses. With backpacks in tow, we arrived at our apartment. It was...
by John Curtis | Sep 12, 2013 | John's Blog
On the way to a wedding in Poland we stayed a couple of days in historical Berlin. In the twentieth century there were two losing world wars and the loss of Berlin as the capital of Germany. These events created untold hardship on the citizens of Europe. After World...
by John Curtis | Sep 3, 2013 | John's Blog
On the way to the wedding in Poland we realized that to traverse across Europe by train on our planned route was too much. The night before our departure from beautiful Luzern, Switzerland we had to modify our route and cut out Austria and Hungary. We needed to...
by John Curtis | Aug 20, 2013 | John's Blog
I went to a wedding in Poland recently. We landed in London, bounced around like a ping pong ball with the rest of tourists, and after a couple of days headed for Normandy, France, Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. We boarded a ferry out of Portsmouth in Southern,...
by John Curtis | May 30, 2013 | John's Blog
Many years ago, while in the U.S. Army on active duty, I had an incident where my right knee was injured. The ligament that stops the knee from over extending was snapped and cartilage was torn. The ligament was never repaired and the Army said I was disabled....
