Source Thursday, the first of the so-called “crazy days” leading up to Lent, is known as Weiberfastnacht or the Women's Carnival, where ...

OAFS Photo Got on the road at roughly 0800 local. Grandsons were groggy as they've been sleeping late over their school vacation. They w...

OAFS Photo We closed out the old year at Inju Korean BBQ at the Annapolis Mall, one of my favorite eateries in the area. As it was the cele...

Winter Sunset Source As 2025 winds down I have to admit that, for me, it was a good year. I'm retired, no one to answer to as far as how...

OAFS Photo There is something to be said for the silence of a cold, overcast winter's day in December. Away from the noise of the city a...

Source Christmas is always much anticipated by this old coot, it's been that way for years. Nothing has changed. What has changed is the...

Source And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the...

OAFS Photo Just to let you all know that The Missus Herself  and Your Humble Scribe  arrived safely at our holiday destination. We're ha...

Freedom From Want Norman Rockwell Source I have liked this painting for a very long time. The lady putting the turkey on the table reminds ...

Careful Mother Source Visiting my Mother in New Hampshire, praise the Lord she's still with us at 94. And she says she can't believe...

The Friday Evening Snow OAFS Photo At some point during the day on Friday, I decided to check the weather. I'd been hearing about a ...

OAFS Photo Not the greatest photo, taken through a screened window, but hey, if you want Ansel Adams, you're obviously in the wrong plac...

OAFS Photo All hands remain in holiday mode as of this writing. Truth be told, 'tis right and proper to be that way. Everyone has worked...

OAFS Photo Not feeling the urge to do any creative writing just yet, I am enjoying my vacation far too much to knuckle down and get to work....

Source I was reminded of this the other day ... I don't watch much television these days, mostly I stream movies, and the like. I rememb...

A Charlie Brown Christmas Source Enough blood and gore, for now. It struck me that I was forgetting something. I mean, it's December, i...