"I've had an interesting morning. In the last two hours I've lost my job, my apartment, my car, and my girlfriend." - John Winger, "Stripes"
During the early 70’s we took several camping trips with Bill and Dottie, often during the early parts of the Summer before it became too unbearably hot. On a few occasions, our trips were over Memorial Day Weekend. In 1973, we spent Memorial Day weekend in Virginia and Washington D.C. (although I was not taken into D.C. […]
The Summer fun continued. I was actually a lit bit nervous and anxious about hosting Ashleigh’s graduation party due to the money, time, and hard work that would go into getting everything prepared. Thankfully, due to help from my Mom, Bob, Jackie, and Christi, I think we all pulled it off. But we did have […]
I headed into Fathers Day weekend 2008 with plenty of plans to continue my Summer of adventure. Jackie and I braved Friday the 13th of June by heading out into the stormy, cloudy weather to visit Dad at the Hudson Central Regional meet that was taking place at the Holiday Inn in Fairborn. I had hoped to meet […]
The only thing I remember about early 1977 was that it was cold. Actually I don’t even remember that. But considering that this particular year began in January, it’s a pretty safe bet. In truth, I’m sure I have many memories stored away from the first part of the year, it’s just that I certainly […]
Our Spring certainly was short and sweet. We had one week of nice Spring weather, then the rains and storms and tornados came and brought with it the sweltering heat. Our last night of semi-pleasing but very warm weather came on Friday night June 6. This was the night that Jackie and I took Grace […]