"I also need some money for a treat, said the blonde." - Christi Adkins
Although William Howard Taft did a respectable job as our nation’s 27th President of the United States, most people today only recall that he was our heaviest President and a special bathtub had to be designed for him in the White House. Mostly that’s because there was very little significant about his term from 1909-1913 - only […]
On Saturday morning, August 2, 2008, Bob and I departed Denise and Aaron’s house in Westerville for the final leg (or rather legs) of our road trip journey around Ohio. This was a day trip I had long planned as part of my “website-driven re-visits of places I’ve already been but have to see again […]
I guess you could blame a tomato for my introduction to Bob Satterfield the man, not to be confused with Bob Satterfield the fish (as introduced here). And not just any tomato. I’m talking a 1928 tomato. Because it was Thomas Benton Roberts, who had been hit in the face with a tomato in the […]
As a prelude to the forthcoming 1996 Laurel and Hardy Cruise convention postings, here I am sharing the article I wrote at some point following the trip. It isn’t a complete breakdown, but rather a nice tongue-in-cheek overview of the goings-on of our crew. The issue of Dante’s Info #17 that contained the article was slated to […]
I began to panic the morning of Saturday, July 12, 2008, when I suddenly realized that I had spent too much time on the computer and in the bathroom - and had nothing in the room to tell me what time it was. Jimmy had already headed to breakfast and our buses, so not knowing […]