memories | memories
Jul.09.2012
About a month back we went on a short hike. A break from the noise, quiet and vast views was just what I needed.
Corn colored grass glistened with the sun’s rays, swayed in the wind, calling for me to run through and fall into its soft cushion.
The views are always spectacular from up high. I can...
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Jul.06.2012
I passed my birthday with a celebratory beer. I allow myself one beer on my birthday each year. Other days I have as many beers as supply, sense, situation and cash on hand authorize.
June has ended, another month in the books. Since we've passed the year's halfway mark, 2012 also counts as a...
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Jul.06.2012
Summer brings back memories of family gatherings at Boon Lake with parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and stories of those who weren’t with us. After a day of playing and swimming we would all gather on the patio or in the cottage for a meal. My great-aunts would tell these...
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Jul.04.2012
1971 -
The AM radio played Janis Joplin, "Me and Bobby McGee", Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" and George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord". A new television show, "The Andy Griffith Show", had started earlier that year.
I was fourteen. I'd moved in with my father after running away...
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Jun.26.2012
Slowing down time
Visiting what’s going to be our oldest boys elementary school in the fall makes my heart flutter. I need to catch my breath. Ironically, I got the same feeling on space-mountain this year. I walk past classrooms with artwork done in Crayola and it hits me…This ride is...
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Jun.20.2012
When I visited my uncle two days ago, before I left I asked him if it was alright if I went to the back room—to my grandmother’s old room— to say hello to her cockatiel, Ponchito. The room now belongs to her beloved bird. My uncle has the large cage propped up high, so that I have to walk up to the...
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Jun.19.2012
Let's blame it on the Twinkies. I'll call it the Twinkie Defense. I hear it's been used before, I believe in Iceland, when Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky played chess for all the marbles.
I wrote a post this morning about turning over rocks. I wasn't really enthusiastic about the subject....
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Jun.18.2012
Have you seen the cereal and cookie aisles at the grocery stores lately? What is all this stuff? How many variations of one cereal do people eat? I remember when there was one Cheerios, one Raisin Bran, and one Rice Chex.
Wow, do I sound old?
I go to the grocery store a few times a week, usually...
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Jun.15.2012
Water melon.
Cold and juicy, it was a sweet ending to a lovely day, a buildup to summer's formal beginning next week.
It's different eating water melon now than when I was a kid. First, the way Mom cut the pieces. Mom was generous about it. We ended up with these big half circles the size of...
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Jun.15.2012
1976. Twenty years old, I was in the US Air Force and stationed at Clark Air Base in the PI. I was an emergency actions controller and flight-follower, working the the 3rd Tactical Air Wing's Command Post, coordinating daily flight activity and training for disasters and war. I'd been married a...
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