If you are an avid baseball fan you know that there are differing opinions and controversies regarding baseball’s greatest players and all-time personal achievements. When I was growing up baseball historians argued that Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb were the greatest of all time. Throughout the past seventy years names like Hank Aaron, Willie …
Author: Robert
Coming to a City Near You – Two
Earlier this week Elizabeth and Sutton set out on a grand adventure. They are off on a three country – yes country – musical tour. So much for a once a month, week-end hobby. Elizabeth has always been a traveler. She likes to see places. Experience. Explore. She’s drawn to ideas and people …
Coming To A City Near You
The first time that I heard the name Sutton Papanikolas my daughter, Elizabeth, was telling me about a new guy that she had met that wanted to take her fishing. She was living in San Diego and I wasn’t sure if he planned to take her “deep-sea fishing” or “lake fishing” like we do in …
Dentists – Cars – Hemorrhoids
I faced my fears last Monday. I went to the dentist AND I bought a new car!!! The dentist was routine. I had my teeth cleaned and I had no problems. After the cleaning the dentist checked my teeth, gave me the thumbs up, and I scheduled another cleaning for October. We all …
Two Bits From My Past
I spent the winter in Florida. During my time there I had the opportunity to meet with my cousin, Gene, on a couple of occasions. He has a Florida home too. If you are an avid reader of my blog, you know that Gene is AKA Woody. We did a lot of reminiscing. Here …
Sagebrush Shorty
Baby boomer kids had a plethora of children’s shows to entertain them during their early years. Every show included a character to bump up the interest in the show. Detroit was full of them: Soupy Sales, Milky the Clown, Poopdeck Paul, Auntie Dee, Captain Jolly, Johnny Ginger and Sagebrush Shorty all graced the television set. …
My Resourceful Father
My grandson, Brady, has started doing work for pay. I saw him at Christmas and he told me that he and a friend had started a business raking leaves and shoveling snow for their neighbors. They worked in tandem and picked up their jobs by offering their services to carefully selected prospective clients. …
Flight 245
Ruth and I were passengers on Flight 245 from Las Vegas and Los Angeles on September 3, 2011. We had visited Vegas as a celebration of our wedding anniversary. After our time in Vegas we planned to make a short hop over to Los Angles prior to boarding a flight for our final …
The Patsy
Our neighborhood was full of young families with children. By the time kids stopped being born the head counts went something like this: Tebo (that’s us) 3 Ruff (left side of us) 4 (later replaced by the Benedicts with 3) Graham (across from Ruff) 2 (underachievers) Coatta (right side of Graham) 6 (There is about …
Love At First Sight
The first people I loved were my parents. I believe that’s probably true of most people. Over time I learned to love my two sisters, as much as a pain in the rear that I found them. It may have been automatic, but I don’t remember it that way. I expect that’s the path of …