The Blue Beast was a 1966 Corvette Stingray. It produced about a gazillion horse power on a good day and it had a lot of good days!In the early 1970’s I drove ‘The Beast’ for a couple of years on numerous quarter mile drag strips in Texas and Oklahoma. We almost always won. The Beast […]
We’re about to enter the peak of the hurricane season. Any day now, you’re going to turn on the TV and see a weather person pointing to some radar blob out in the Atlantic Ocean and making two basic meteorological points: (1) There is no need to panic. (2) We could all be killed. Yes, […]
(My friends George and Annette adopted Gabi from Romania when she was 9 months old. This is my memory of the night she arrived home in the USA over 20 years ago, and what her thoughts might have been.) All I could see was a small bundle with black hair and shining black eyes staring […]
My Dad… My Dad was a bicycle salesman for most of my life. He started selling Schwinn Bikes when I was in the fifth grade. Before that time he sold furniture, insurance, theater advertising, he was a short order cook, owned a restaurant, worked on the dinning car for Southern Railroad, drove a city bus, […]
. . .THE DUTCH. . . Sometimes, late at night, when the house was quiet. I would hear her “thump” to the floor from her favorite chair.She would do that when she woke up and found nobody sitting nearby. She had to know where her “Mom” was. . . as if to say, “It’s my […]
I Remember the Coronation of the “King”! In 1956… or maybe it was 1957. . . I was in the seventh grade at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. That was the “Old Harding High” downtown! The one that had Coach Dave Harris cranking out the meanest “gang” that ever took the field in a […]
Some things are good for you. Reliable and practical and so sublime that to discard them would be a horrible mistake! Things like old blankets, warm sweaters, arthritic husbands, graying spouses and that pair of 25 year old Hush Puppy Tan Bucks with the 3/4 inch red rubber soles! ( I finally parted with mine […]
Your will spend your lives trying to achieve perfection. . . Then, one day, you will realize that we are defective, imperfect beings and from that point on, life will be so simple. In a nutshell. . . , we spend our lives trying to “get it right” all the time. Then. . . , […]
The Plan Did you have a plan? When you were 16 years old, did you know, just absolutely know, what your life was going to be like? Were you going to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief?Were you going to have a home, spouse, kids, two cars, boat, summer place and all the other amenities […]
My Friend George By Bob Thomas I have a friend named George. He’s been my friend for over 20 years, and will be until one of us decides to depart this life I suppose. The agreement we have is. . .regardless of which of us dies first, the other one gets his shoes! I suspect […]