Category: Current Events

I took a friend, Barbara, to the Grand Rapids Airport on Thursday for a trip to Chicago. The stop was on my way to Jackson to play poker with the poker group I’ve been a part of for going on forty-eight years.  I’d driven to the airport a dozen times since moving into my Tullymore …

I started a plant-based diet a few weeks ago. I’m eating this way for health reasons. I began a Mediterranean diet around Christmas in order to live a healthier lifestyle. I ate chicken and fish, fresh vegetables and fruits, eggs, a limited amount of bread, and several dairy products. You know, all sorts of cheeses. …

I’ll be 78 tomorrow. My name was going to be Danny Lee until it came time to sign the birth certificate. Danny, not Daniel. I’m happy that my mom changed her mind. When I use Robert, I see it as being more formal. I used it when I attended important meetings while I was working …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

My Grandma Tebo lived with us for a couple of years after Grandpa Tebo died.  The three things I remember most about her time with us were watching TV, going to church and baking. Her favorite television shows were Lawrence Welk, Gunsmoke and Paladin.  Paladin was really Have Gun Will Travel but she referred to …