![THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Four, Chapter XIX](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LearJet.jpg)
![THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Four, Chapter XIX](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LearJet.jpg)
![THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Four, Chapter XII](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LosAlamos.jpg)
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Four, Chapter XII
I opened the velvet-covered blue box and looked at the medal. There’d been no ‘pinning’ the medals to anyone’s chest, as I’d experienced in the Marine Corps. The medals and an eight-and-a-half by eleven blue plastic-covered certificates were handed out. The medal was...![Final Sunday Evening, Santa Fe](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Aerial-view-Santa-Fe.jpg)
Final Sunday Evening, Santa Fe
Evening was just about to come on when the sun burst forth and blasted the side of the La Fonda Hotel with brilliant light. The snow, the people, the sun, the buildings, all of it making things appear like there were a hundred or more years ago……
![Slow Sábado in Santa Fe……..](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/BasillicaSaintFrancisSantaFe-e1450051025969.jpg)
Slow Sábado in Santa Fe……..
I walked out to see how the snow was doing. A lot of it seems to be evaporating right into the air. I walked up the sidewalk toward the Catholic Church at the top of San Francisco and then turned to look behind me……
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Santa Fe Going to the Dogs?
What is it about dogs and me in Santa Fe? Now here’s a dog that was laying down this morning and waiting for its owner to wake from street side sleep on San Francisco just across from the main Plaza