"Women - can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts." - Norm Peterson, "Cheers"
Looking at the photo at left, it’s not hard to see how I could’ve had a major crush on Jackie Moore during high school. I first met Jackie at Skateworld, the same place that I first met Kim Cummings, Lori Tobias, and other Ferguson freshman girls. At the time, Jackie was dating another friend from our ‘group’ […]
Tim White came along a couple of years or so after I was hired at the Beavercreek Kroger in May of ‘89. He was in the ‘next generation’ of the bagger elite. I was hesitant to include him in our ‘ranks’ - that of Jon, Larry, James, and me, mostly due to my own pigheadedness. But I soon […]
Carl Lichtenburg and I go way back - and have experienced several eras of our lives as friends. He is one of the relics (and I mean that in a nice way) of my high school ‘gang’ of friends from tenth and eleventh grade during the ‘Skateworld’ days. Among these friends were Mark and Scott […]
It may seem surprising that someone to whom I was once married would qualify as one of my official ‘reunion’ people. But the truth is that Lisa had all of the unspoken qualifications. I had not seen her, spoken to her, or otherwise been in contact with her in more than five years…and I had to actively […]
Jennifer Crum was one among the Ferguson Junior High girls that my group of friends would hang often hang out with. In fact, she was pretty much Christi’s best friend when Christi and I began dating. Jennifer also got a job at Hardee’s in late 1988, where I spent some of my most formative working […]