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 …
Author: Robert
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 …
Dibs
If you grew up any time in the last several decades, the phrase “dibs” will be a memory that brings up either pain or pleasure, depending on whether or not you successfully snagged that last slice of pizza. “Dibs” is a popular slang phrase used to refer to the first right to something. Sometimes it’s …
A Penny for Your Thoughts
There’s an old saying… A penny for your thoughts. It’s been around as long as I remember. It’s a way of asking what someone is thinking. For example, “You’ve been gazing out that window for quite some time. A penny for your thoughts.” Something unusual happened to me the other day, so I looked up …
Dancing
I started going to dances when I was in the seventh grade at Clara Barton Junior High. The only “fast” dance I did was “the twist”. Tom Sneller and I were the only two brave guys back then. We’d twist away with the girls while Chubby Checker sang. Most of the time the girls stood …
Dani
If you look up Dani’s book, Racing to Death, on Amazon this is what you’ll see. Daniela Daniels was well-known in northern Europe as one of the first female motorcycle racers until a horrific accident took her life on the racetrack. When the ambulance arrived, she was revived but stayed in a coma for the …
My Favorite New Critic
A couple months ago BZ and I shared our books at The Villages’ Book Expo. We made a lot of plans beforehand. Much of what we thought would be true, turned out to be false. We had a lot of lookers but not a lot of buyers. BZ did meet the director of a children’s …
It’s By Choice
Tuesday is the six-month anniversary of my new shoulder. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll recall that my three kids came down, one at a time, to spend a week with me during the end of September and the first part of October. Since David came first, he and I went golfing one last …