The year 2022 started out with the promise of the end of the COVID-19 global pandemic but quickly showed us the doorstep of World War III with the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. As it comes to a close, I look back at all the events that took place this year. Some predictable, others not, like my diagnosis with stage-IV prostate cancer in July, and the shocking, though not too surprising tragic death of my son, Mitchell, in the Kansas City area only 2 weeks after my diagnosis.
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The Old Magnolia Tree
When our family lived in Durham, North Carolina, for the second time between the years of 1963 and 1971, we lived in an area that was a boyhood dream. In our back yard, less than 20 yards from the house, was an old log cabin with remnants of a linoleum floor and a covered hole in the wall that was once for a stovepipe. The cabin had been a dwelling at one time. Just across the street, was the eastern boundary of Duke Forest, in which my neighborhood friends and I had a network of paths and forts extending almost to Orange County to the east.
Continue readingChicago, America’s Biggest Small Town
Being from Muncie, once labeled “Little Chicago” for the mobsters that would hang out there in the 1920s and 1830s due to it’s proximity to the “City of Big Shoulders” yet also because of its distance from it, I would visit the “Windy City” from time to time during the warmer months. It wasn’t until 1988, long after moving to Texas, that I experienced the winter months there.
Continue readingHouston “Space City”
Houston, Texas, is the 4th largest city in the United States and THE largest city in the south. My first encounter was in 1973 when Mom, Dad and I visited there as Dad interviewed for a Medical position. We spent several days at a hotel near the Medical Center, foreshadowing events fifteen years later.
Continue readingCarolina On My Mind
I have very fond memories of North Carolina, having spent six of the first
eleven years of my life in Durham, all but two school years prior to Junior High there, and after ten years of being an only child, was blessed with a little sister while there.
2014 in Review
2014 – a year of hope, promise and loss.
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- Dr. William Bock Jr – March 26, 2014
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- Bob Adams – September 1, 2014
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- Dr. Charles Leiphart – September 19, 2014
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- Mr. Dieter – September 5, 2014
Memories of My First Wheels
My first automobile was a red 1969 Ford Torino GT with a black vinyl top powered by a 351 Windsor small block V8. Though it had a considerable amount of rust to both rear quarter panels, it had relatively low mileage for a six year old vehicle and the price was only $700.00.
Stevarino’s Ford Torino
Remember? Remember!
It will be fifty years this November 22nd, a day that I remember like it was yesterday.
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Congerville/Muncie Flyers
I recently ran across this well done video over some of the history of “Middletown U.S.A” on the Delaware County Historical Society website.
Continue readingSteve Jobs, 1990 Interview – PBS NOVA
This interview was conducted on May 14, 1990 for the PBS series, NOVA. It is one of the few interviews he ever allowed. It was recorded with Sony “betacam” technology.
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