Category Archives: Personal History

Ray Bans they are not; Snarky I am not

Today was my annual eye doctor appointment with my retina specialist, Dr. Sarah Galchus, who is a mystery novelist as well as an opthamologist.  I’ve never asked her about it.  Maybe next year.  According to Amazon, there’s only one copy … Continue reading

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How Well Do You Know Me?

From 1986-90 I was an assistant football coach for the Shiprock Chieftians at Shiprock High School in New Mexico.  As JV and 9th grade coach, I was 3-25.  There was a two game winning streak in there. In 1986, I … Continue reading

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Digestive Digest

I’ve been a pretty poor poster recently, and for that I’m sorry.  And what I have posted has mostly been about my digestion.  For that, I’m sorry as well.  It just dawned on my, faithful reader, that I’ve left you … Continue reading

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I’ll spare you the pictures of my pyloris

Last week happened.  Typical. Monday started with the miraculous birth of my 12th niece/nephew, Lila Kay.  She was 7 lbs. 6 oz. of perfection, born to my brother, Nate, and Darcie at 7:38 a.m. via C-Section.  Her older sisters, Marryn … Continue reading

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Daughter in the Wide World

Oooo, baby, baby, it’s a wide world.  —Cat Stevens OK, now he’s Yusuf Islam and has done a lot of things to make me scratch my head, but he captured a father’s thoughts about a daughter pretty well 40 years … Continue reading

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I’m back, and with (stolen) tornado footage

Who knew my blogging hiatus would be noticed? Life got really wild in June and I got complacent living the unexamined life. Luckily, gentle bloggers Sarah and David have coaxed me back. I’ll begin with something simple. I just returned … Continue reading

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Beethoven, a man, and a rose

or What my wife told me in the stairs There’s nothing about listening to Beethoven that’s usual for Sherry. It’s not that she doesn’t enjoy it; she does, but the old deaf white guy doesn’t get much play in our … Continue reading

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The Sun Also Rises

Reading along with my daughter and her AP English class, I picked up another that I have missed.  Twenty six years ago as a high school senior, I read For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms and … Continue reading

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To a mouse (with whom I battled last night and then again this morning)

  Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, Wi’ murd’ring pattle! –from “To a Mouse”? Robert Burns … Continue reading

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On a spider turning 18

Kylie turned 18 yesterday. We all woke up this morning and raced through the customary scramble to get to school as though nothing had changed, but something has. I just haven’t figured out exactly how. The cliché regarding this passage, … Continue reading

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