John’s Papal Blessing
My father-in-law, John O’Hara, was a devout Catholic. He was born in 1918. His mother Mabel and his father had just gotten off the boat from Ireland when Mabel was widowed by the Flu Pandemic with a newborn. John eventually had the good fortune to have a well-off person in New Port Richey become his […]
Becky’s First Car
I left for Boston University in the Fall of 1973 for my doctorate in Anthropology. Janis and I missed each other, to say NOTHING of not being able to afford the phone calls. Yeah, you paid for a long-distance phone call those days! When I returned to Tallahassee for the winter break she decided to […]
Boy Scout Camp
Camp Sebring was the place you wanted to go to in South Florida as a Boy Scout when I was a kid. It is closed now. We all piled into a rail car at the tail end of a Florida East Coast Railroad train for the trip there. I do not remember how many summers […]
The Embryo
Quite a story behind its “birth”! I will get to it. In the meantime, I didn’t want you all to have to wait to see it. If the PDF viewer below does not work for you, you can open the PDF directly by clicking on the following link: The Embryo
Turn About Is Fair Play
When I was on the Everglades research team in the 1960s, our office and laboratory were in the Federal Building in downtown Miami, as ugly and unadorned a phallic monolith as you would ever want to (not) see. During the riots that ensued after Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, Liberty City in Miami was […]
Cat Humor
Sir Leopold https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sir-leopold/ Simon’s Cat in “Cat Man Doo” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q
Phil’s Favorite Song Two
The Foggy Dew My wife Janis O’Hara is from an Irish family. In school I once wrote a paper on Eamon de Valera, one of the leaders of the Easter Rebellion. He was next in line to be executed when a new British officer was put in charge who stopped the executions. So again, another […]
How to share this site with friends
Hello everyone, I’m the Site Administrator. You don’t know me, but Phil couldn’t do this without me! Of course, he does all the writing! I’ve added some way for you to more easily share the site with your friends. Below is a QR code that links to the website and, if you’d rather use an […]
Phil’s Favorite Songs One
I have tried to create theme part series on this site, such as Travels with Phil. I had a very long and deep relationship with many folks in the recording industry for over 30 years. That is the motivation for this series. The Dutchman by Michael Smith I had the good fortune to be […]
Another way to use less plastic
This picture should be self explanatory. No more big plastic laundry detergent jugs in my house! And you can even buy them at Publix!