By Goose I’ve known Mike Miller for a very long time – gone camping to Gilsum and worked summers for him. With all this time to get to know him there are a few things that I’ve learned, like how he thinks. He has a fascination about studying people and their actions in certain situations. […]
Icy Roads
Matt, while home for his winter break, sometimes drove my truck which was invariably tuned to old time radio shows. “Dad, I’ll be driving along for five minutes and then realize I’ve been listening to complete gibberish.†I do like that word gibberish and it’s relative gibbering. One of those shows described a mad scientist […]
La Rad To put it mildly…. Friday (yesterday), I dropped Michael off at school as is our usual routine at about 7:40 AM. When I was driving back home, there were police, ambulances the whole nine yards heading back in the direction I had just left. I never thought something happened at the High School, […]
A small (though it may seem endless) portion of my drive home from Indiana. Give me some credit for driving with my camera carefully balanced, and not careening off the bridge and into the Ohio river
Patrick Woods, son of Patrick and Sarah Woods, five minutes old. (Sarah’s Linda’s daughter and smiling Dan’s step daughter.)
Art Buchwald Several of my friends have persuaded me to write this final column, which is something they claim I shouldn’t leave without doing. There comes a time when you start adding up all the pluses and minuses of your life. In my case I’d like to add up all the great tennis games I […]
Dear Michael, As we departed our Topeka motel with fearless driver Patrick manning the truck, we all realized that today would be the last day of our journey into the golden west. We’d been watching the weather channel each night, and now examined the grasslands closely for the promised signs of snow. On and on […]
rakkity’s first snow pics:
Dear J & K, I slept the sleep of the dead – I didn’t stoke one fire, surf one site, boil one pot of tea. But best of all, having gathered all that knowledge at your house, I dismantled the tub/shower valve here at the Fairfield Inn and soaked in truly hot water. Michael