Pater Familias

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Dearest Sweetie, It's been a hard year. Time after time people come up to me and ask: "How is Diane?" a...

Hello, my name is Rod Auclair. I'll be 82 two months from today, and I find that the real pleasure and treasure of being elderly are our...

4/26 Dearest Rod, Thank you so much for calling me at work this morning, at 9 a.m., the twenty-third anniversary (to the minute) of our son...

Hi. My name is Doug Auclair, and I served, Active Duty, as an officer in the United States Coast Guard from 1989 to 1995 after graduating fr...

The military is family, it's a way of life. And nothing gets you thinking about life more than death. I came up to Vermont because the h...

Hi. My name is Doug Auclair, and I served, Active Duty, as an officer in the United States Coast Guard from 1989 to 1995 after graduating fr...

  The ancient Greek word for 'a man' is 'ἥρως' ('hero'). And, ... men are heroic, stoic ones at that. (Although the ...