"Next week we'll learn why cows look forward to giving milk!" - Mr. Olson, "Police Squad!"
At left is a photo that I snapped (instead of having the good sense to actually get into) of several members of the Springfield Towed in a Hole Tent of the Sons of the Desert surrounding Laurel and Hardy co-star Virginia Karns Patterson in the Fall of 1986. Clockwise from the kneeling girl, we see Carla […]
Lance was one of a dozen or so guys that held the unenviable rank as being my best friend for an unspecified period of time. Our time as comrades was during the bulk of 1988. Oddly enough, we first met on bad terms when I made some wisecrack about Lance’s appearance during Miss Joyner’s math class at Beavercreek High […]
I first met Matt Bohlander at the Church of the Brethren Regional Youth Conference (RYC) held at Manchester College in Indiana during the early part of April 1990. Matt was the youngest of the Bohlander brothers and I had seen him around Camp Woodland Altars several times in the past. His oldest brother Chris was […]
Typically, my group of friends didn’t hang with the ‘little kids’ in the neighborhood…but with Mike Weller, we made an exception. This little guy who was three years my junior was just sharp and witty enough to keep up with us. We seldom had to leave Mike behind when we roamed all over the neighborhood, hiking […]
When I first met Darin Anderson, he reminded me of one of those guys from the fifties boys series fiction books, like one of the Hardy Boys maybe. He was straight-laced, lean, fit, and athletic - and he greatly enjoyed the outdoors: exploring, hiking, sporting, you name it. It was fitting that we first met at […]