"Thank you, toilet bowl" - Bill Cosby, "Bill Cosby: Himself"
Here are two more fabulous color shots from the “slides” series, one of my Dad proudly (?) displaying a baseball trophy in the Summer of ’59 and one of his Dad, my grandfather at work. Read the rest of this entry »
Disclaimer: If you are reading my other postings about Ashleigh’s and my Georgia travels on our way to the Augusta Sons convention, do not get confused about this posting. Although in those other postings, we are also poised to attend Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School class in Plains – this posting is about a trip that I just took with my Dad and uncle this past weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Make no mistake, my life is not quite worthy of a biography… but I have always wanted to create a synopsis of important and interesting events from my life in some unknown format just for the sake of having some documentation available for later on down the road when I’m too old to remember anything. This is also a worthwhile endeavor simply for the sheer joy of recalling good times of the past.
There are two things I especially wanted to chronicle. I thought about actually doing two booklets and printing them up a while back, but that seemed much too difficult and would have invariably fallen by the wayside and never been completed. But with this journal, I can see myself actually doing it a little at a time and leaving myself the opportunity to edit it and add things to it. Read the rest of this entry »
So, continuing with our Georgia trip: Bob, Ashleigh, and I drove the 10-minute jaunt over to Plains from Americus where we had enjoyed a sumptuous prime rib dinner. There we checked into our room at the Plains Historic Inn. Bob had been here before and had enticed me to check this place out. The last time I was in Plains was during their 2004 Peanut Festival, so this place was booked up for that weekend. It’s not surprising that it would be completely occupied – considering it only has seven rooms! Read the rest of this entry »
When I was visiting my friend Bob in California in 1995, one of the highlights was seeing the stage production of Miss Saigon. This was on Tuesday, June 27, 1995 at 8:00 pm PST at the Ahmanson Theatre. I have been hooked every since. During the days following the show, I played his ”Highlights of Miss Saigon” CD over and over again as Bob and I drove around southern California. Then upon arrival home, I purchased the full double-disc set and played it over and over again, too. Lisa, my wife at the time, fell in love with it. She loaned it to her friend Susan and she fell in love with it. We would sing it, we would play it, we did everything but eat it.
Last night, Wednesday, September 20, I saw the stage play again for the first time since 1995. Since the California show was the official Broadway version, and last night’s performance was put on at the small-time La Comedia dinner theatre, I didn’t expect to be ‘wow-ed’ the way I was in ’95, but I was pleasantly proven wrong. Read the rest of this entry »