Back in April, my son Tom alerted me to watch for a package containing a Sock Monkey. It was in Michigan, he said, and our home was its next stop. When I received it I was to let people who knew his daughter (thus my granddaughter) Lindsay see the monkey, and write a note or […]
Happy Father’s Day all you Dads, and those whose role is or has been or will be that of “Dad”. Wikipedia notes, without any fanfare, that this is the 100th anniversary of the observance of Father’s Day, it’s first observance on June 19, 1910. I’ve been around long enough to have been a Dad not […]
Previous posts on this topic: here and here. For years, when I’m “out and about” in our world I’ve made it a practice of picking up the local newspaper, however humble or exalted. So, when we were about to leave Denver on June 6, I picked up the Sunday Denver Post, and when I wasn’t […]
I clicked on “publish” on #197 – Taking Responsibility and went to watch President Obama speak to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night. The speech is short, well worth watching. As I anticipated in #197, the instant analysis – and criticism – began immediately after the lights went down in the Oval Office. […]
In an hour or so President Obama will deliver an address that will be closely watched world-wide. Afterwards, as he and his advisors know, every word (or lack of same), expression, inflection, will be analyzed and isolated to suit the purposes of endless numbers of observers, who will then cast judgment, positive or negative, on […]
Okay, okay. Here’s a slide show of a wedding with 84 slides, and I took them all. (Simply click on the first photo in the group, and then you can play this as a slide show, as you wish.) Do cut me some slack. After all, it was granddaughter Lindsay’s wedding, June 4, 2010, at […]
Have a good Memorial Day. I press “send” and we leave suburban Denver and my oldest granddaughters wedding on Friday June 4. All such events are significant. This wedding is far more so than most for me. Lindsay’s grandma, my first wife, Barbara, died at University Hospital, Minneapolis, when her Dad, my son, was 1 […]
Four of us hit the road from the Twin Cities to Denver early tomorrow morning. We will look like pretty typical older people, and unless we do something crazy, will probably make the trip out and back without attracting any attention whatsoever, even on Memorial Day when the police are thick as flies in a […]
Been a spell since I’ve posted here. No particular reason. Maybe time for a break…the beginning of Memorial Day Weekend seems a good time to break the silence. A little over a week ago I took a trip out to North Dakota to visit my Uncle and Aunt who live in an assisted living facility […]
The evening of May 4, my wife and I spent a delightful time out at Aronson Field in suburban Lakeville. Here a group of irrepressible adults engaged in the game of softball. These are all adults who are called “disabled”, one of them my Down Syndrome daughter, Heather. This night was billed as a pre-season […]