On Thursday I sort-of helped Dear Diane as she cooked an absolutely wonderful meal for our guests at the Wildwood Soup Kitchen. The soup kit...

Usually I spend quite a bit of time preparing my homilies. Before I sit down to write, I pray, asking the Holy Spirit to guide me. And as I ...

Tuesday, 5 November 2013 -- At Sea Okay, not quite. Our first sighting of land is still several hundred miles to the west, but today is our ...

I just realized that, despite my promise to do so, I never posted anything describing our weekend in the beautiful city of Bath. I'll tr...

As part of the celebration of our 45th anniversary yesterday we decided to go to the show put on by the ship's remarkable young entertai...

Off hand I don't know the size of the crew of this ship. I've seen the figure somewhere but I simply can't recall it. But accord...

Today, November 2, is our 45th anniversary. Dear Diane and I were married on this day in 1968 in the base chapel at Naval Air Station Pensac...

Friday, 1 November 2013 Today we are again blessed with calm seas and a sun that has warmed us and our immediate world to the point where D...

We left the tidy English port of Harwich on Thursday, entered the North Sea, and spent Friday steaming south toward the coast of France. I a...