Category: Random Thoughts

A couple of years ago, I accidently wore my shirt inside out when I walked across the street to meet our new neighbors.  They invited me in for a beer, and when I got home, Ruth asked, “Did you wear your shirt like that while you were out?”  I had.  I ended up writing a …

Four retired men are walking down a street in Yuma , Arizona . They turn a corner and see a sign that says, “Old Timers Bar – ALL drinks 10 cents.” They look at each other and then go in, thinking this is too good to be true.  The bartender says in a voice that …

My history books said that Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on his new invention in 1876.  That call changed the world.   Communication expanded, and each day the world  gets smaller and smaller.  Communication, whether the information we receive each day is true or not, changes lives. The telephone is not the …

I was combing my hair this morning and noticed that it doesn’t take me as long as usual.  It appears that my forehead may be growing.   I thought that all of my growth spurts, except for those around my middle, had ceased.  Apparently I was wrong. When I was younger one of  my greatest …

I met my first two  professional baseball players when I was in my high school physical education class.  (aka p.e. aka gym) Ivy Lofton was one of my p.e. teachers.  He was also the head coach for the football team.  Ivy coached football at Royal Oak Dondero from 1959  until 1992.   The thing I …

Starter Set I’ve enjoyed playing golf since the beginning of my teaching career.   My parents bought me a starter set for my birthday my first year in the classroom.  It was a very simple set with four irons, a driver and a putter.  On the first day of having my clubs I was “chipping” …

Ruth and I took a three-week, belated honeymoon, during the summer of 1972.   One of our stops on our southern swing was Biloxi, Mississippi.  The two biggest memories of that stop were the cockroaches that Ruth discovered in our motel room when she switched on the bathroom light and the beautiful plantation style mansions …

I find technology frustrating.   I grew up during the age of “write legibly”.   Printing vs. cursive was the big battle. As I develop this blog, I am forced to accept the technological challenge of learning new things.   While stumbling  through the world of downloading and uploading, plugins and widgets, users and settings, …

I’ve listened to and told stories all of my life.  My dad was my original story teller.  He spoke from experience and recounted memories from growing up and living life.  He was a simple man with simple tastes.  He was honest in all of his dealings and he loved children. I became a story teller …