by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog |
Friday was Thomas Jefferson’s 275th birthday. Those of you who do not reside in the Commonwealth of Virginia may be forgiven for not knowing this. For us Virginians, forgetting Mr. Jefferson’s birthday is punished with points on your driver’s license. I’m pretty sure....
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog |
[Tomorrow is the 153rd anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, so I thought it might be good to re-run this blog post from last year. I’ve had a long writing week struggling to finish the initial draft of No Hero’s Welcome, the last book in my...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 1, 2018 | Blog |
Happy Easter to all who celebrate this highest of Christian holy days. And Happy Passover. And a Happy Maybe-Crappy-Winter-Weather-Is-Finally-Over Day to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. (Except for New Englanders. Because that would be cruel.) As any of you Six...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog |
This’ll be a short post with as many pictures as Kay-Kay wants to jam into it. It’s been a very busy weekend and there are two reasons for this. First, claiming Alumni Parent Bragging Rights, Kay-Kay and I have been swept up in The Rambler Scramble in this year’s...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog |
I wrote a post back in August spilling secrets about my days flying the venerable (meaning friggin’ old) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. This name is habitually shortened to the BUFF. This is an acronym for Big Ugly Fat Fuc… errr, Flying Machine. Rereading that post, I...