If you’ve ever had teenagers in your life, you may be able to relate to this tale. The event took place about thirty years ago, but I remember the key components like they occurred yesterday. One of the perks of being a school superintendent was attending conferences in Traverse City each fall. Ruth enjoyed going …
Author: Robert
A Medical Update
I don’t wish to sound dramatic, but I’ve recently had some health issues. I think the big stuff is behind me. I went in for a cardiac catheterization a week ago and they put two stents in my system. This whole experience started about six weeks ago. I was feeling short of breath, got lightheaded …
Little Boxes
There’s a song that came out when I was in high school called Little Boxes. Pete Seeger released the social satire in 1963 as a criticism of the creation of suburbia with its urban sprawl and conformity. “Little boxes on the hillside. Little boxes made of ticky -tacky. Little boxes, little boxes. Little boxes all …
A Book Review
I’ve started reading the Eight Dates book that my sister Jackie bought for me. It’s written by John Gottman and his wife Julie Swartz Gottman. I’ve written a bit about the book before. Since my last post, I’ve been told that it’s most meaningful if it’s read with a potential partner. It doesn’t differentiate between …
Fingers Crossed for The Ghost
I’ve written about my son-in-law Sutton and his song, The Ghost’s Perfume, a couple of times. If your tired of reading about it, move on. The last time I wrote about the song, I told you that he’d been nominated for an award in the San Diego music community. I provided a link and asked …
Cut and Chop
In the fall of 1994, a new high school senior wanted to speak with me. Her parents were divorced, and she had lived with her mom. For reasons unknown to me, that changed her senior year. She moved in with her dad and stepmom. Her grandfather was a businessman in town and well connected …
Bill and Me
I was going to call this post Invincible but apparently I’m not so I’m going with Bill and Me. It’s about my current events. This winter after I completed my audiobook, I decided to record some audio stories to post on my website. I couldn’t just pull stories from my book because the publisher won’t …
Reading Is FUNdamental
I started writing this story in April of 2022. I found it in my draft folder, and I’ve decided to give it another go. As you read, you’ll discover it’s a story from my elementary principal days. They ended on November 4, 1991, when I became a superintendent. That was thirty-four years ago. Time flies. …
Florida’s Friendliest Hometown
I wrote this a year ago. It popped up today and I can’t move it, so here’s a second look. The Villages, Florida promotes itself as Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. Ruth and I bought our first home here in 2004. It was a patio villa that we owned for eighteen months. We bought a ranch …
Life’s Different Now
The final MRNA (Mom, Ruth, Nana, Altogether) Invitational was held last Friday, April 11th. This would have been Ruth’s seventy-eighth birthday. I always looked forward to her birthday, in fact it was one of my favorite days of the year because for six weeks she was a year older than me. The first year’s event …