Category: Life Lessons

We drove to my apartment in Kalamazoo. During the drive Ruth remembered an old family friend. Perhaps Judge Westra could marry us or at least point us in the right direction. Ruth called him. While sympathetic to our cause, the Judge wasn’t much help. I had heard that you could get married in Indiana without …

, Ruth and I are in Las Vegas, Nevada. We made our first trip together on September 11, 1971. I wrote and posted the blog below in the fall of 2017. It’s a recounting of how we met and married. The next few blogs will be an edited version of the original six installments. We’ve …

  A couple of weeks after my time as Anson’s helper, he was robbed at gun point, pistol whipped, and ended up in the hospital.  The two rolls of nickels in his front right pocket, meant to ward off would be robbers, just angered the men who robbed him. The one thing that never made …

Working as a “helper” for Faygo was memorable. My biggest takeaway from the experience was learning how hard my dad, and those who held similar jobs, worked. It was mostly muscle, and thus, not my strong suit. My first day with Anson, I just hopped in the truck and waited for directions. His route took …

  My dad was a kind and gentle man.  He didn’t have a mean bone in his body.  I never heard him curse, and he was all over me if I stepped out of  line.  He treated everyone with respect.  He wouldn’t understand today’s rush to change our culture. He drove a Faygo truck for …

After World War II my dad held several jobs. He worked on a  production line, delivered horse meat to stores in Mt. Clemens and Detroit, made beverage deliveries for my Uncle Harry Mac’s father, and finally Faygo.  He worked as a teamster for Faygo Beverages for over thirty years. The company was originally the Feigenson …

It’s not what you think. “Hey little girl” is not a pick up line. The first time I uttered the phrase was for Liz Lane when she was three or four years old. Our families were staying in Myrtle Beach. She’s the youngest child of our friends, Rick and Jan and one of the youngest …

I played golf with some new friends earlier this week. I’ve joined a drop-in league. The name comes from the fact you play whatever week you wish without the commitment of a weekly match. It’s a nice format for the summer. You play against a single opponent whose handicap is similar to yours. Mine is …

I try to look at life like the shower guy in this cartoon. If things aren’t going my way, I make adjustments. I know people who focus on the negative and, what seems like, their never ending woes. That’s a bummer. Life is full of obstacles. I believe we’re better off when we focus on …

Several years ago, when our three children and their spouses were celebrating somebody’s something somewhere, one of them allowed themselves to be “over-served”. As a result his, or her, behavior changed. The resulting misbehavior was cause for some concern. The “over-served” individual was singled out and told they were a “stain on the family crest”. …