Category: Family

Elizabeth was in the third grade, David the fifth and Michael was in second when we took the kids to Mackinac Island for the first time. We had a great time exploring the island.  We walked through the main streets, bought fudge and t-shirts, held photo shoots like this one, and rented bikes. The five …

This is my 200th blog.  One of the main things I’ve discovered during my 200 posts is my stories have resurrected  memories for others.  I think that’s a good thing.  Some of  you lived the stories with me,  others were reminded of similar tales from their own past, and still others garnered a smile or …

If my dad was still alive, he’d be 100 years old tomorrow.  He lived until June 27, 1999 a few months short of turning 80.  That’s way too young, especially when I consider that I’m heading that way myself. He lived a simple life, worked hard, and above all else, he loved his family.  My …

Casey became my aunt the moment that Ruth and I said “I do”.  I’d met her  several months before at the Van Bruggen family gathering during the Christmas season of 1970.  She was the youngest sister of Ruth’s father’s family and the only one without a husband and children.  I liked her the moment we …

Ruth and I took Brady and Eva out for breakfast last Saturday.  We picked them up at Papa and Grandma’s house.  (That’s Lindsay’s parents.)   We planned to eat at a local mom and pop restaurant that we haven’t been to in over thirty years. Lindsay’s parents live on Folks Road.  We headed west on …

  The hippies pulled out of town yesterday morning at 9:30 10:00 11:00 11:08.  It’s hard to believe that they were only here sixteen weeks.  If you use a day planner, that’s 112 days.  All you math geniuses out there know that converts to three months, two weeks, six days, fourteen hours, nineteen minutes and …

Ruth and I hung out with Brady and Eva last week-end.  Ruth arrived on Thursday evening and I arrived the next day.  Before I rolled into town on Friday, Ruth drove Brady to a neighboring town for a gathering of seventh and eighth grade students.  Brady is going to be a freshman in the fall …

Biology was one of the areas of study during my junior high school science classes. One of our assignments was to select one of several topics supplied by the teacher and develop a comprehensive report based upon biology. I chose to study twins. We had several sets of twins on both sides of our family. …

My dad referred to his parents as Ma and Pa. I knew them as Grandma and Grandpa Tebo.  George Gabriel Tebo was born in 1875 and Mary Christine Ritter eleven years later. They raised a family of six girls and one boy. The girls were Nettie, Katherine,  Elizabeth (Dutch) Bernadette (Bern), Julia (Jewel) and Gertrude …

Ruth gave birth to our third and final child, Michael, forty-one years ago today.  We spent the 4th of July week-end with Michael and his wife, Kate, in Reno.  I had never been to Reno or Lake Tahoe so this was a grand new experience. While we were there Michael received a phone call from …