"Mom said I had sedunctive hearing. Can you die from that?" - Briana Pond
A Christmas Story is a film that generally makes an appearance in my house during every yuletide season. Because of my love for this movie, I was willing to shell out $40 or so to have Bob pick me up the photo above from one of the Hollywood Collectors Shows during the early 2000’s. Peter […]
January 1, 2001 was the official start of the new millenium - and for me it was really the start of a new life. My marriage with Lisa came to a somewhat abrupt ending just a couple months before and I was now embarking on a new and serious relationship with Carolyn. With wreckless abandon, we dove […]
Since my marriage had effectively ended not long before, I opted to forego holding Christmas Eve (or at least some portion of it) at my house for the first time since 1994. So we had a mess of places to visit and in addition I had my new girlfriend Carolyn’s family to contend with. As […]
After Carolyn and I met, we naturally were spending lots of time together. But we had to take a break for at least one night in mid-November, not long before the Thanksgiving holiday, when I had to pack up Ashleigh and Briana and head all the way down to Burlington, Kentucky, to star in a Kroger training video on […]
Dad got re-married on December 1, 2000 to his girlfriend Vicki Burns. The two had met at the March 1998 annual Chevy Club 50’s dance. This was one I hadn’t attended - but I soon got to meet Vicki as she began coming to some of my Sons of the Desert Meetings. Vicki had come […]