During my career as a hockey coach, I spent a couple of years coaching midgets which are players of 15 and 16 years old. One advantage of that age group is there is less parental interference. I guess that is the age […]
Rockford Blackhawk Boy Scout Council had a camp in the upper peninsula of Michigan by the name of North Woods. It was in the same area of Michigan where the great Peshtigo Fire occurred. It happened the same night as the great […]
During my career I have done trade shows all over North America. In every city there are different impediments that you must overcome. The word comes from the Latin which translates as baggage. And it certainly usually turns out to be baggage […]
Halloween has always been one of my favorite days. As a kid I was always excited to figure out what costume I would wear. Finances being as they were, we had to make whatever we were going to be. Then the hurrying […]
My granddaughter Libby when she was young had a bit of a problem. She had a terrible fear of thunderstorms. The sky would darken, flashes of light, and the resultant rumble would send her into a panic. I had never been around […]
Our friendly little golf group consisted of eight guys, five Canadians and three US. Although Gary from Toronto was on the US team when we had the Canadian US shoot out every year. The other Canadians swore that Toronto is not actually […]
The actual filming of the video was quite an experience. It was filmed in the old Midway Theater, which was unused and barely heated. We filmed in the dead of winter. We hire Jim Huffington as the producer and one professional actor. […]
At one point in my career the president and owner of the company I worked for stopped in my office and told me he wanted me to produce a training video. My immediate response was, “No”! Instead of asking why, he just […]
Martha and I would sometimes take a week in Orlando during the winter. We would drop the kids off with the grandparents and head south. It usually took us two days to get there. We would stop in Chattanooga Tennessee. See Rock […]
One year my grandson Andy was going to a hockey camp in Minnesota, so Julie and Stacey decided we should take grandpa camp on the road. So, we rented a cabin on a lake Chetek in Wisconsin, and Julie would drive up […]