Prior to their three-country tour, Elizabeth and Sutton bought a home in Flagstaff, Arizona and lived there for a couple of years. Ruth and I helped them move. Michael joined too. When they took to the road, they rented their home to others. Sometime along their journey they decided to sell their Arizona home, and …
Author: Robert
Sutton James
The first time Ruth and I met Sutton we gathered in Las Vegas. I heard about Sutton James Papanikolas from Elizabeth. I don’t recall where they met, probably at some San Diego beach party bingo experience. In any case, she told me that he wanted to take her fishing. When I combined his Greek last …
Pondering Life’s Lessons
I like the word pondering. I do a lot of it. You probably do too. The big difference for me is I write some of my pondering down and post them in my blog. I’ve written over 620 stories now. I’ve spent much of the past nine months going through my “posts”, whittling them down, …
Two Drink Minimum
I’m seriously considering buying a karaoke machine. I’ve talked about it for a couple years, but I think it’s time to pull the trigger. Whenever I hear songs I like, I sing along. Mostly in the car or when I’m alone in the house. Don’t get me wrong, I sang while Ruth was around as …
Sister
Sister A vicious lion, A timid kitten, A harsh cold night, A warm woolen mitten. A baby’s head, so loving and weak. A pillow awaiting my aching feet. She’s the book you can’t put down. When I’ve got troubles, she’s always ground. Her heart’s an oyster holding a pearl. The best kind of friend to …
Baby Boomers Singles Club
My Baby Boomers Singles Club introduction was informative but socially unremarkable. I’d estimate there were about sixty new people. There were approximately fifty women and ten men. If the entire 1,160 members are made up of a similar ratio of women to men, there are potentially 962 women members. If that’s true, there must be …
Marie
There’s a new person in my life, Marie. We’d met before, years ago when I was in high school. Funny how old friends circle around when you can use them the most. We were never close. We met the first time when I worked as a stock boy at National Foods. I was just a …
One Mississippi
When I was growing up and we were playing touch football, the linemen had to count one, one-thousand, two, one-thousand, three, one thousand, etc. before they could rush the quarterback. We didn’t have enough kids to play all of the positions, so we usually went with a center, a quarterback, and a receiver. The count …
16 Years Old
Eva turned 16 yesterday. Like most sixteen-year-olds she’s happy to have her driver’s license. She’s been saving to purchase a car. She and her brother, Brady, are very different in that regard. Eva is a saver and Brady does his best to keep the economy going. Over the past several months, I’ve seen a big …
Dear David,
Dear David, You probably aren’t aware of this yet. It may hit you tomorrow, or later in the week, but your life is about to change – BIG TIME. You’ve been driving Brady and Eva to school for years. You stopped driving Brady when he got his own car. Eva’s driving days are beginning Tuesday …