My dad ‘s favorite thing to do was to go to the junkyard on Saturday. He would find something to buy and then bring it home and try to fix it. I was always amazed at the number of things he was […]
My parents who got married in 1936 rented a small house on Oregon street in Evansville Indiana. My dad worked at Briggs a division of Chrysler motors. During the next five years they had two boys and a girl. They saved what […]
Julie had graduated from Purdue and was out in the working world. Stacey was just beginning as a freshman at Purdue getting used to being on her own. School was going well, and she was getting involved in joining a sorority and […]
I received a call one day at work from a guy named Dwane. He was a volunteer at the Carolina Air Museum, and they had a problem. One of their functional exhibits was a deicer, and the fuel pump on the device […]
Growing up in Souther Indiana, my mother made sure that my brother Bob, my sister Kitty, and I learned the basics of cooking. Bob was the toughest as he didn’t like a great variety of food. This didn’t change until he spent […]
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 […]