Last night I received a call from friends in Texas. They said hello, and then the connection became really goofy. I told them to hang up and I would call them back. They hung up, and I dialed their number. It sounded […]
Growing up in southern Indiana, our winters were not conducive to becoming proficient at ice skating. Although we did have some very cold days, they passed before freezing the lakes or rivers. Snows would cover the land, and the soot from the […]
My Dad worked at a Chrysler plant during World War 2. It was the Plymouth factory in Evansville, IN. They built wings for the F4U Corsairs, a gull winged fighter plane. After the war, and when union negotiations became hostile. he quit […]
I was planning on having a lonesome Easter. Dan, Tracey, and Julie living in Milwaukee, and Stacey vacationing in Colorado. My plans were to get up and go to 7:00 am Mass, coming home and doing my crazy Sunday morning breakfast to […]
I don’t particularly like salmon. I can eat it, and I like just about everything else that swims. It isn’t that it tastes bad, I can’t really explain my not caring for it. If I am a guest at someone’s house, and […]
When we were first married, Martha had almost no cooking experience. Her mother did all the cooking, and she was very good at it. However, Martha worked very hard at learning to cook. I was very appreciative of this. Over the years […]
Shortly after meeting Marthaa at Purdue University, she invited me to the Sadie Hawkins dance. That is where the girl invited the guy. Today that isn’t so rare, but back then the normal dating was the guy asking the girl. I jumped […]
When Martha and I were students at Purdue University in the early 1960s there was a 10:30 PM curfew for female students. I don’t remember what we were doing on one night, but it wasn’t paying attention. We suddenly realized that it […]
One July when Martha was running the Beloit Visitor and Convention Bureau, they were having their Fourth of July picnic and festival. one of the contests they were having was a pie baking contest. Now there was no restriction on who could […]
When I first got married, I felt we should have a dog. it is the American way. A friend of mine had some puppies, so I adopted one of them. It was of mixed parentage. The father was a wire hair, and […]