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The Greatest Generation was filled with some of the greatest people that I grew up with and respected, Walter Cronkite, Joe DiMaggio, Charles Shultz, but they all pale to my grandmother. She was a speech pathologist and brought me into some of the greatest stories in my life: Making me stand in front of a […]
Why are the puppies in the car? And why are we sad? Late Friday night I was called by my family to tell of my grandmother condition. She’d been put into a hospital for an apparent heart attack. She was in good spirits but the doctors weren’t telling everyone all the details as they were […]
Peace in the country Mother’s Day 2010 As yet another day starts in the Hill Country I sat on the porch watching the mist start to come over the trees to the east. The smells of coffee and cholesterol wafted in from the kitchen. “You want any,” my wife asked? “Nah, I’m plenty good enough […]
I’ve always been good charging into battle. At work I’m known to act first and worry about the consequences later. It’s a strength and also a weakness. Sometimes it is better for me to be patient and I’ve added some limited patience to my repertoire. But I’ve tried to conquer something that maybe it isn’t […]
When I was in New York , my mom called me from Cleveland and asked me about some rude guy from a comic shop who was asking for his Strat-o-matic baseball cards back so he could complete his collection.
I told her that he was a jerk but if she could find them, she could give them back to him.
I told her where I thought they were and she returned sheepishly later telling me that she had thrown that box away since she thought it was junk.