Rick McBee's Writings
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Best Kept Secret: Duty Post in Germany: 1969-72
When you got posted to a detachment in Germany during the Cold War, the odds were that you were going to end up at a post that would have you playing constant war games in the snow or mud and rain off of one… Continue Reading “Best Kept Secret: Duty Post in Germany: 1969-72”
Book Review: The Code Breaker – Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
I Rate this a 5 Star! Here is a book that tells the complete story of genetic editing from the biochemistry laboratory of Rosalind Franklin, in the 50’s to Jennifer Doudna’s 2020 lab and the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Franklin’s groundbreaking X-ray diffraction photography… Continue Reading “Book Review: The Code Breaker – Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson”
Book Review: Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I first began reading this wonderful Eric Ambler, Spy novel, I immediately thought of Camus and the two books I read by him years ago, “The Stranger”, and “The Fall”.… Continue Reading “Book Review: Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler”
Book Review: “PROOF” by Dick Francis
Proof by Dick Francis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love an author who can write well about horses, horseracing and wines. This book has an unlikely hero in Tony, the small wineshop owner, ner-do-well son of a horse tradition family, who has… Continue Reading “Book Review: “PROOF” by Dick Francis”
Scammers Galore – Getting a Retiree’s Attention! If they only knew!
The phone rings! Politics or Scammers All they want is my hard earned $$ It’s another day of Christmas/Political and Car Warranty Scammers for us. Once you retire, they’s got your number and the Phone Company can’t stop them. So what’s on my list… Continue Reading “Scammers Galore – Getting a Retiree’s Attention! If they only knew!”
No Cold Turkey at my Place! Here’s The Perfect Apre’s Thanksgiving Breakfast!
Having trouble recuperating from too much Thanksgiving? Here’s the perfect breakfast for the Post- Thanksgiving Tummy or the Black Friday Blues: Hot Oatmeal smothered in hot turkey gravy! Yummy! Haggis anyone? Have great Day! Rick🤓
Book Review: Ebenezer Allen – Statesman, entrepreneur, and Spy By Allen H. Mesch
Ebenezer Allen – Statesman, Entrepreneur, and Spy by Allen Mesch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Author Allen Mesch has chosen a virtually unknown, yet quite important ancestor to research and follow through life in this biographical and historical work of excellence which only… Continue Reading “Book Review: Ebenezer Allen – Statesman, entrepreneur, and Spy By Allen H. Mesch”
McBee Pioneers on Oregon Trail – 1852
Brief History of the Pioneer McBee’s (MaGBee’s) and (MacBee’s) in North America and on the early Oregon Trail – 1852 By Richard H. McBee Jr. Basic ref.: Out of the Wilderness by Janice Mercer, Illustrated by Helen Scott, Clinton Press, 1973 Originally from Scotland… Continue Reading “McBee Pioneers on Oregon Trail – 1852”
Orienteering: USA 2021 Nationals – CROC Medalists
This was a great year for getting back to orienteering after the 2020 hiatus caused by the COVID-19 virus. CROC, our Columbia River Orienteering Club came together and was able to send 7 persons to compete in the USA National Competitions. Unfortunately we were… Continue Reading “Orienteering: USA 2021 Nationals – CROC Medalists”
Book Review: Beyond the bone, by Reginald Hill
Beyond the Bone by Reginald Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Author Reginald Hill caught my attention and my interest with just the name of his heroine Zeugma, when, in the first sentence of Chapter number 2 of the book, he uses a… Continue Reading “Book Review: Beyond the bone, by Reginald Hill”
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