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Archive for October, 2006

Hospital Shots

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Naturally, Christi and I were not looking our best for these Polaroid snapshots taken with Ashleigh on March 22, 1990 at 5:30 pm. I believe I had returned to school that day proudly wearing my “Our New Baby” button and then anxiously returned to the hospital afterward.
 

The photos below are cute, though - looking more awake […]

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1975 - The Beginning of Time

Friday, October 20th, 2006

The early 1970’s postings are easy because they are just photos and events that were reported to me as having occurred. When you get into this era, it is a challenge to actually dig deep enough to find these memories. When exactly do your memories begin? All of the sudden you just are. Time is […]

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Leonard Maltin Praises “The Wax Apple”

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

On the latest front page of Leonard Maltin’s website Movie Crazy , he has given our “Wax Apple” website a mini-review and referral. I’ve only met Leonard once, but he has sent me a couple of letters expressing his liking of my Sons of the Desert newsletter Dante’s Info - along with an autographed photo or […]

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Ashleigh Elizabeth

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

The best thing to ever enter into my life happened on Wednesday morning, March 21, 1990.
From the beginning of 1990 until Ashleigh’s birth, Christi and I understandably spent nearly all of our waking moments together. We were thrown a shower by my church, we shopped for baby clothes, we took Preparation for Childbirth classes at […]

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Hi Bob!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Yesterday I opened the mailbox and was greeted with a large yellow package. These are always fun. I shredded the envelope and got stuffing all over the floor, but after that catastrophe was cleaned up, I slid out the new book by Bob Newhart, “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This! (and Other Things That Strike […]

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