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 …
Author: Robert
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 …
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 …