Beneath the Wraps

             My brother Steven has always been well read.   Long before Google and the Internet, Steven was avid at finding reference materials.   He read about various subjects until there was nothing left to research.   He has always been well informed about so many subjects – except maybe the Pan Am Conferences of 1910 – not even a subject of his choosing but rather one that had been assigned to him in school.   The encyclopedia included perhaps an entire paragraph for the Pan Am Conference of 1932 or 36 or some year in that decade.   I can’t remember.   But it was a couple of decades after the assigned year which had even less documented.           I don’t recall what the word count was assigned to the students or if they all had the same topic or exactly how it worked.   Steven was miffed as he’s been required to come up with more information that he could find. ...

            Where do I start on this post?  At the beginning?  I don’t remember when the beginning was.  Sometimes I will see an ambulance parked (but still running) in front of one of my neighbors’ houses.  At least once I have seen a paramedic truck.  I have always wondered why they aren’t sent in clusters.             In Utah it seemed no matter what emergency vehicle we would specify, they would all show up.   I hadn’t seen that in Oregon since this post almost a year ago.   Jenna calls it cruel irony.   But let me back up again.           Roland had an appointment to go to the dentist yesterday.   My appointment is not until July 29 but there was a cancellation for yesterday at 3:00.   How cool is that?   I charged both of my kindles expecting we’d fulfill this outlandish date.   Then they had a...