Dave Berry

A Letter in the Recipe Box

This column, published Nov. 22, 2013, honors my wife's uncle, Lt. (j.g.) Hugh Coachman Crews,...
Dad Death and Dora

Dad, Death and Dora

"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The...
Texas Prison Rodeo 3 - bronc rider in chute 1981

Farewell to the Texas Prison Rodeo

"What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Strother Martin (the Captain), Cool Hand...
Sand dunes near sunset at White Sands National Monument.

Leaving Tracks Through Life

"I think that's what we're all most terrified about... that we'll just die and disappear...
Bob Hope - Vietnam 1971 (cropped horizontally)

Thanks, Bob Hope, For Remembering (The Column I Almost Didn’t Write)

By DAVE BERRY Thanks For The Memories - too easy a headline to mark the...
Elephant Tusk from the South Rim

South Rim By Sixty

"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness."- Maggie Smith By DAVE BERRY "South Rim by...
Iwo Jima Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Rainy Night in North Carolina

"When the night has come, and the land is dark,And the moon is the only...

Above it All at Acoma

"In the end I tell my children, there's no way I can tell you how...
Buffalo Watering Hole, Tallgrass Prairie, August 2013

Where the Buffalo Roamed

We all have our time machines. Some take us back; they're called memories. Some take...
John Vincent Griffin collage

Unheralded Sacrifice – A Forgotten Hero

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's...
Selecting the next book to explore is sometimes a large part of making reading fun.

Fewer Half-Read Books

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who...
Tombstones with flags at Arlington Cemetery - Memorial Day 2013

Silence in the Gardens of Stone

By DAVE BERRY A quiet pervades the cemetery. Not "so quiet you can hear a...

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