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 …
Fuzzy
I met Don my first day of college. I knew a couple of classmates from Royal Oak were attending Western and found comfort that “At least I’ll know someone.” Don became my first “new” friend. Don proved to be quite a character. He grew up on a Wisconsin farm. He was a big, strong, …
1969
I graduated from Western Michigan University in June of 1969. I would have graduated in April but I was two classes short of the required credits, so I attended Spring term. (I played too much my junior year.) That was 50 years ago almost to the day. I intended to earn a Bachelor’s degree that …
The Final Flush?
I’ve struggled with the title of this blog for days. I considered and rejected several. One More Shi!!y Tale, Keep on Flushin, Ain’t No Plunger Big Enough, and You Can’t Force a Six Inch Poop Down a Four Inch Hole were all considered but rejected. The Final Flush? is what I hope is the …
Rick and Jan
Rick and Jan were our first “couple friends” when I took the job in Addison. They had one child, Greg, and we had two, David and Elizabeth. The four of us were young and just beginning our careers. Rick had been promoted as the new Addison Middle School principal, and I was hired to lead …