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 […]

Sometime during the early 70’s we had a very interesting experience. We refer to it as the year of the appliance. During one 12-month span, every appliance in our house failed. The order fails me, but i believe it started with the […]

My neighbor Bob across the street asked me if I knew how to coach baseball. I assured him I did, why? He told me about his two boys playing, and they weren’t learning anything or having much fun. It seems they were […]

Martha and I got married in 1963. As those things happen, we started having kids. First was Dan in 1964, followed by Julie in 1966, and the end of the line was Stacey in 1970. We were firmly established in Rockford Illinois […]

Sometime during the late 1970s our water heater began to leak water out into the basement. We couldn’t afford to have someone solve the problem. So, I went out and purchased a new water heater to install myself. The store had free […]