Musings ...
Mind wandering, imagination triggered ...
Carolan
- Things/people I'm eternally grateful for:
- Parents who said I could be and do anything I wanted if I wanted it enough and worked hard enough to be/do it.
- An inquisitive mind that never shuts down and always welcomes change.
- Joseph Lambert, my first West Indian friend, who taught me sooo many things and was infinitely quotable.
- Dianne C. Walker, who once said if she ever appeared in my writing she'd SUE me -- love that woman!
- Guy my precious middle son, who succumbed to medical complications before the age of 15.
- My 4 surviving offspring -- Dena, Tad, Dale and Alana -- who have all found their own lifepaths.
- Things I desperately wanted but didn't get:
- Trip downriver from Lewiston to Vancouver on a series of PINCO tugs and an article on the experience.
- Correspondent job, Vietnam 1968, for the tugboat company, after editing their award-winning newsletter.
- An economic success as Associate Publisher of Homes and Land/Portland.
- Back to my weight before babies.
Carolan
I'm interested in the tug company newsletter you edited. I'm the editor of TugBitts, the quarterly journal of the Tugboat Enthusiasts Society, and always on the lookout for material. Was there anything in the newsletters that could be strung together to form an informal history of tugboating in 'Nam? No pay but we will send you a copy of the glossy 60-page issue that carries your article. And photos from that period are always welcome!
Please say YES.
Hugh Ware, editor
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