On February 22, 1980, my wife and I sat glued to the TV as a young US Olympic Ice Hockey team, against all odds, defeated […]
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Patterns for life…
These few words neatly printed on a small tag attached to several paper cutouts in the shape of a dress. They were neatly tied together […]
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Fourteen years ago this week, we began hanging out in the NICU at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. We were there to visit Camden and […]
Continue readingA windmill….
Windmills have served this arid, high desert region well (pun intended), bringing cool, clear, life-giving water to an often parched surface for people, crops, and […]
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Back from Scotland: April/May 201906/01/2017-6:18 am At Angela’s in Deer Park, (IL) sitting in the back garden by the pool, enjoying the sound of an […]
Continue readingMeeting Charley Pride…
In the early seventies, I found myself at Remote Site H-2 in Iceland. I’m told our mountain was 17 miles from the Arctic Circle. Travel […]
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Many years ago, when we left Scotland, myself, Joyce, Angela, and Ashley flew into Bayonne, NJ. Our car had been shipped by the Navy some […]
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Back in the day, Joyce and I would travel to Southwestern College in Winfield KS to watch Aspen our youngest daughter play basketball for the […]
Continue readingHooker Methodist/Wesleyan Church Ground Hog Supper
Like many other things from the early days, the Methodist Men’s Ground Hog Supper, long a special event in the community of Hooker and the […]
Continue reading1812….
The 1812 Overture just popped up on my Spotify playlist. I’m a fan of Tchaikovsky’s Overture. I heard/saw/experienced it one time at a performance of […]
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