After watching the Super Bowl last night, it brought back some memories. One thing I remember is that a ticket to Super Bowl 1 was $12, and the lowest price for Super Bowl LIX was $4000. Although there really never was a […]

Growing up in Evansville, Indiana in the late 40s and early 50s we kids thought the world revolve around the Evansville Braves. They were a professional baseball team in the Three I League. They were the Class B farm club of the […]

Sixty years ago, when I was working at Bell Labs, A management directive was sent out that there would be no skylarking in the halls prior to Christmas. We all thought that a little funny and couldn’t understand why. I was much […]

Just saw where Ireland beat England in rugby, and it brought back a memory of an event fourteen years ago. I was retired from Suntec by then but was carrying a cell phone in my pocket to take care of customer service […]

I have some request concerning the blog. If you open it and click on a page, you can only read the blogs on that page and cannot go directly to another page. You need to arrow back to the home page and […]

When Martha and I moved to Rockford in 1969, we immediately fell in love with the place. We felt quite safe here and the opportunities looked great for us and our growing family. Cost of housing and utilities were a real eye […]

For those of you who thought Chris Farley passed away more than twenty years ago, he is still around. He lives in the body of my cousin Eric Davis. Eric is my cousin by marriage and a lot younger than I am. […]

When we let friends in Ann Arbor know we were moving to Rockford Illinois, we were amazed at the number of them who said you have to go to the Wagon Wheel in Rockton. They told of how it was a honeymoon […]

One of my best friends was Jim. We worked together, vacationed as families, and just did a lot of things together. Jim was a lot more detailed than I am, but we usually worked through those things. I have a plethora of […]

Back in the day when we were going to Myrtle Beach for our week of golf and trying to drink South Carolina dry we had a little incident with a local restaurant. As usual the eight of us went as a group. […]