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 …
Two Bits
Culture I had a crew of 34 high school students finish their two week assignments with local businesses last Friday. Going in they talked about articulated credits and scholarship opportunities. Coming out they talked about culture. They didn’t use the word, but that’s what they meant. They talked about eight different business locations that …
Some Kind of Crazy
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 …
Tony Jerome
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. …
Ma and Pa Tebo
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 E.
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 …
Grass Clippings
Ruth and I dropped our land line about ten years ago. We each had a cell phone and didn’t see the need for a third phone. Before the final drop, Ruth changed her cell phone number to our land line number. We felt a bit nostalgic about the number and didn’t want to let it …
We Need Three Things
Ruth took Brady and Eva out for lunch last Saturday. They spent their mid-day sharing time and conversation. We’re lucky that our two grandchildren think enough of us to share theirs. Part of the visit was a discussion of making money. As they drove to lunch the kids pointed out some nice homes and …
Second Chances
A couple of times a year my Michigan poker group plays golf together. It’s really a perfect day for me because I get to do two things that I love – play golf and poker. Best of all I get to play with a bunch of guys I really care about. We played this week. …
More Fuzzy Tales
Chicken or the Egg Fuzzy moved in with Gary, Jim and I for our senior year. We moved into a honest to goodness apartment outside of campus. Fuzzy was with us for only part of the year, but it was memorable. Jim’s girlfriend, Lynn, built an incubator, placed a fertile egg inside, and hatched a …