How I spent part of the time during the COVID-19 pademic
The Family Romanov Obviously, I am not related to Russian Royalty, but, during the COVID-19 pandemic, which, essentially, robbed the world of the year 2020, I began to do some reading on subjects I might not have considered looking into otherwise. One of the topics I hit on was the murder of the entire Romanov family, and that caused me to remember something I had not thought of in many years. I recalled a long ago Friday night when my father and his brother, my uncle, Art, were talking about the Romanov family over coffee—this was their weekly “get together to shoot the bull” night, before they changed it to Thursdays in later years. On that particular night, they had begun to talk about events from their boyhood and young adult years. I should note that I ordinarily did not sit in the kitchen to listen to Daddy and Uncle Art's conversations, but I had never heard about that particular “topic of the night” at school, so it was new ground for me and I...