Category: Random Thoughts

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 …

I’ve thought about writing for a very long time, but thinking and doing are two different things. When I graduated from high school I wasn’t very good at thanking people for my graduation gifts, so my mom gave me a ditto master  (Most of you don’t know what that is, but it was two giant …