When we were first married, Martha had little experience with cooking. She worked very hard to overcome this and become a good cook. I know we all appreciated it. One of the other things she had no experience at was raising growing […]

Yesterday I went with a couple of friends to Edwards Apple Orchard. It has been an annual event to go get my cider donut fix. However, it is a much more involved expedition. When you arrive, there is this very large building, […]

I just celebrated my 87th birthday. My daughter Julie set it all up to have here at the Willows. My sonDan had a prior commitment and so couldn’t come. My daughter Stacey and her husband Shane came in Saturday and stayed overnight. […]

In my early years of boat racing, I felt successful if I avoided the dead last feeling. My first boat which was a runabout I had purchased from Than Field I sold and purchased a new one which Than had built. It […]

Back in 1972 I was coaching a Mite hockey team. These were 6- to 8-year-olds. There were three Mite teams, A, B, and C There were tryouts, and the better players were on the A team, second best on the B team, […]

Back in my boat racing days, one year the nationals were being held in Portsmouth Ohio. Actually, they were held there more than just one year. However, I remember this year in particular. I had finished testing and was back at the […]

When Martha passed, in addition to the funeral Julie, our eldest daughter insisted that we have a celebration of life. She was a great help in getting this done. We were able to get the Lombardy Club to host the event. We […]

When Martha and I were traveling around Scotland, one of the sites we took in was the William Wallace Memorial. It is a 220-foot-tall tower on the shoulder of Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland. It overlooks the fields where […]

Martha and I had been in Arizona visiting one of our grandsons. Driving home, she had the thought of us finding Rosa’s Canteens that Mart Robbins wrote and sang about. So she did some research while we were driving to find where […]

Recordings of me singing don’t do much for me. I really can’t stand my own voice. It is my understanding that this isn’t unusual. Outsiders giving their opinions have a wide range of opinions. We won’t go into those. However, many years […]