"Your car is uglier than I am!" - Carol, "American Graffiti"
I entered Kroger management training on June 26, 2000. The first week was held primarily at the KMA office on Tri-County Parkway in Cincinnati. There were six of us in this particular training group: Jim Betas, Phil Stebbleton, Geoff Glier, Jeff Bour, Stephanie Johnson, and me. Besides me, Geoff and Jim are the only ones […]
So far the score of racking up trophies in Myrtle Beach condo competitions was this: Briana - 2, Brittney- 1, Brad - 1, Ashleigh - 0. Ashleigh wanted to get a trophy, dammit, and there was nothing that was going to stop her. When there was a trivia contest with a trophy going to the winner […]
Amazingly, although I had been an off-and-on, but diehard, KISS fan since the late 1970’s, it wasn’t until Thursday, June 7, 1990 that I first saw them in concert. I had previously met ex-member Ace Frehley three years prior - but that was the extent of my brush with KISS fame. I attended this particular concert, […]
Although it would not have been my first choice of places to spend our last full day of the 15th International Sons of the Desert Convention, I did enjoy our day at the Stone Mountain amusement park in Atlanta, Georgia. We had nearly had our fill of long bus rides as we boarded yet another […]
Easter fell on April Fools Day in 1985. This less than a week after Great Grandma Murphy’s funeral and again we had a gathering at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house on Kruss. I don’t have any specific memories of the holiday, but know that we conducted our usual Easter Egg hunt. For many years, someone would always […]