Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts
Friday, September 24, 2021

Step Up to Dutch Masters and Smile, Brother, Smile

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When I was a young’un, my dad smoked cigarettes for a time, but never once do I remember him smoking a cigar. Regardless, Dutch Master...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Some Week!

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Today is Brugger’s birthday — which we celebrated at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar this past week with friends Stephen and Sa...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

A Sad Day in April

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Dad coached my City Recreation League basketball team, circa 1970. My dad passed away on this day in 2001 — somehow , that was 19 years ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Soul Coaxing

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If you didn't grow up in the years between 1950-something and 1970-something, this one isn't for you. This one is for the old fart...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

A Random Tale of Electrifying Terror

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The two most terrifying experiences of my life both occurred in Myrtle Beach, SC, a couple of years apart. The first was when I got eaten ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Father's Day Reflections

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I have on occasion written about my dad here in ye old blog, but for Father's Day I am inclined to record a few more in-depth thou...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Dad's Day

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Pa on his honeymoon, August 1956; that stance sure looks familiar. It's Father's Day, and yesterday actually would have been my d...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Twelve Years Ago Today...

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Mom and Dad before I was even a glimmer ...My dad passed away. Complications from severe diabetes, which he'd had for most of his a...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father's Day 2011

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Dad died just over ten years ago—April 11, 2001. A great man he was. Seen here with a strange little dude, sometime in 1959.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Time Passages

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Mercy; today would have been my dad's 80th birthday. He passed away in 2001, which sometimes seems ages and ages ago...and other times...