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 […]

One particular day when Martha was working in her position as director of the Beloit Visitor and Convention Bureau she had some work out in the county surrounding Beloit Wisconsin. Having finished what, she was out there doing, she was headed back […]

When we first got married, Martha was not a very good cook. It wasn’t her fault, as her mother did everything in the kitchen without any help wanted or required. Everything she put on the table I complimented. She would respond that […]

I didn’t know until Martha had passed on that she was doing a little charitable thing. Anne who does my dental cleaning brought it to my attention. She called on the phone and told me that Martha was collecting cards and donating […]