A Walk Through a Cemetery

Back 40 to 50 years ago cemeteries were pieces of land I desperately tried to avoid. Following the death of my Uncle Lloyd when I was 10, and the death of my dad when I was 15, cemeteries brought back such painful memories. Despite all that, in my late teens I took the job on…

World Food Day

Regarded as one of the four bare necessities of life, food, along with air, water and shelter are required by an individual to survive and sustain life.  A prolonged deficiency of one or more of these necessities can drastically affect life to the point where the body ceases to function properly and dies. Every October…

The Man Who Cheated Death Twice

Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s claim to fame is quite unusual. He cheated death twice. On August 6, 1945 as a 29 year old engineer he was on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Hiroshima Japan.  That day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city killing 80,000 people. With burns to the upper…