"Upset? I'm housebroken." - Stan Laurel, "Babes In Toyland"
Imagine the smugness. My Mom received a phone call one Saturday afternoon and from her excitement and a few verbal cues, I immediately picked up on the nature of the call. Perhaps a month prior, I had entered a contest at the Burger King in Beavercreek where we were charged with creating a drawing featuring […]
I had high hopes for May. As I recall it seems to get warm and stay warm once we hit May. This one was a misfire. We had a few nice days in a row where I could get out and take a walk and then nearly two solid weeks of rain and chilliness. This […]
Hot on the heals of a relatively early Easter, Denise had her first birthday on Friday, April 8, 1977. This would be her only birthday celebration in our house on Echo Hill. From the pictures, it was clear that we had a party for her at our house with many members of Dad’s family present. Whether […]
I didn’t know a lot about John Nance Garner except that he had once been the Vice-President of the United States. Our first stop of the morning of Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - and in fact the reason that we had stayed the night in Uvalde, Texas - was to see the grave and former […]
Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower most certainly rose to power as our nation’s 34th United States President from 1953-1961 due to his exemplary military record. He had served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and had planned and supervised our invasion of France and Germany, effectively forcing Germany to surrender. As President […]