Spring Cleaning

As I write this it is a cool, cloudy, foggy and rainy day in June.  However, we have finally seen some signs of Spring, the trees are in full bloom, flowers are rising up out of the earth, kids are outside playing, clocks have been turned ahead giving us that nice...

DST – Daylight Savings Time

Having just gone through the “changing of the time” on March 9th, I began to reflect back many years and recount some of my thoughts about this semi-yearly occurrence.  I think my first recollection is from when I lived in Upper Montclair, NJ, in the mid 40’s to early...

Happy New Year

Now that the hustle and bustle of our end-of-year holidays are behind us and I sit in my office composing this, the first Pop’s Perspective article for 2014, I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you a very Happy and Healthy New Year. Even though I have...

A Recent Trip

A few weeks ago we had an opportunity to journey to Washington D.C. and Virginia to visit with some relatives: sister, niece, nephew, grand niece and grand nephew. My sister recently relocated to Virginia and my Nephew, Rick, Lt. Col. US Army Retired, works in D.C....

Lighthouses

For some unknown or unexplainable reason, my wife and I have had somewhat of a fascination with lighthouses over the years. Not the all-consuming allure that others may have such as completely decorating with that theme or planning vacations solely for the purpose of...

Calendar

I was checking my calendar recently to verify the “due date” of my next article for Pop’s Perspective. As I was doing that it dawned on me how my life sometimes seems to revolve around that calendar. Sometimes it seems as though I’m constantly...