Category: Life’s Stories

So as I was deciding on what to do and how to repair the faucet on my kitchen sink and the shower divertor this morning, this David Wilcox song was spinning on the cd player in my brain! Read More

Ok so a couple of weeks ago when I was looking through my baseball card collection I came across these cards from the 1955 movie Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier. I know
I watched the movie on TV on Disney probably in the late 50s, and guess these cards were bought when they came out in 1956, Anyone else remember them? Read More

So as the Occupy…. protests grow and turn violent as in Oakland it starts me thinking about my more radical days almost 40 years ago. So I did a Google search and came up with these two demonstrations that I took part in at the University of Florida in 1971 and 72. I was there in the street when the police turned on the fire hoses and threw the tear gas. I spent most of that night leaving the street as the police made their charges and then moving back after the rush was over….. sometimes never evcn making it back to the street! Read More

So while I know that the weather has a lot to do with it, I do think I’ve crossed some kind of Rubicon in the last several runs. I’ve gone from a 60 year old jogger who is just trying to finish his four mile run, to a 60 year old runner who actually can pick it up over the last mile and finish with a little kick at the end! The last two runs have ended with the last mile being the fastest and my heartbeat being less than 100 after 3 to 5 minutes after stopping! Last night’s run was the second fastest over my Creek – out and back four mile course but the great thing is that I feel good through the whole run! So the next run will be at the track to see how I do with some intervals and one fast mile! Read More

So sitting here on this Memorial Day my thoughts wandered to an uncle I never knew. My mother’s brother James “No-Name”Ashton (though his middle name was Elmer) who died on July 17, 1944 somewhere in the hedgerows around St Lo in France. Somewhere around the house I have an insignia patch for the Division he mailed to my mother and a book about the division. I can find neither today. But in reading about the division it said they fought in the hedgerows around St Lo from July 5 through the 20th of 1944. Here’s more about the Division: Read More

So this morning after the Phillies season came to an inglorious end last night, I started thinking about the team and the franchise. The franchise has lost more games than any other franchise in sports history having broken the 10,000 game mark a few years ago! Being a Phillies follower for the last 50 years (is that possible?) I’ve seen my fair share of those loses! Including those 23 in a row and 1972 when the team won 54 games and Steve Carlton won 27 of them! I’ve seen the team go from worst to first from 1992 to 1993 only to have the dream season destroyed by Joe Carter. Then there are the World Series appearances the first in 1915 and it would be another 35 years they returned in 1950 and another 30 years until they won their first World Series in 1980. Since then the team returned to the series in 1983 only to win the first game and then lose the next four games to Baltimore! It was another ten years until the return in 1993 only to have the dream season end the way it did! The Giants this year remind me a lot of that 1993 Phillies team a bunch of players that had played for other teams and together they clicked and won it all! Read More