You hear ‘be mindful’ and what do you think? I hear it and think, ‘watch your step around this one.’ Is there more?
DAD DAYS TO GRANDDAD AND BEYOND
Dad days never end, and I’m glad. I didn’t sign up for the part time version. There wasn’t a switch to throw for the eighteenth birthday that said, ‘I’m done.’ I’ve been a dad since my first born, then doubled up with my second. Since then a few surprises joined up, just not those surprises.
NEW TRADITIONS FROM OLD: 100 DAYS AND COUNTING
New traditions aren’t always new, just new to some. The 100 Day tradition of throwing a party was new to me, but not new. When a new mom’s parents are born in China, there will be a 100 Day celebration. Now I wonder why everyone doesn’t have the same? It points to the differences in […]
FAMILY HISTORY FROM BOTH SIDES
Family history comes in two varieties: The first: We don’t talk about that side of the family. The second: We can’t say enough about that side of the family. That’s the starting place for going off the rails.
HAPPY TIMES FOR HAPPY PEOPLE. ARE YOU HAPPY YET?
Happy times don’t always show up in the present. Sometimes you have to get through things first. Then, on looking back, you see it. You were happy and didn’t know it.
MOTORCYCLE HOODLUM GRANDPA, EARLY WWII ANGEL
One enchanted evening the man on the hog met a woman at a USO dance. He saw her across a crowded room. They married just before he shipped out to the Pacific Theater of Operations, PTO. Score for a motorcycle hoodlum, but he was the least motorcycle hoodlum on the road. He […]