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 […]
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. […]