The Terrible Catsafterme

The last trio of former Ankeney Chargers are three individuals whom I didn’t know all that well during school, but who all are fine individuals who share the bond with me of having attended a half-dozen years of school together. Even if none of us were that particularly close in school, I certainly knew them all well enough – and more importantly had a great time socializing with at the Beavercreek High School 20-year reunion on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

It had been quite a while since I had watched Twin Peaks, the bizarre, surreal, horrifying, backwoods, serial drama created by David Lynch. But my girlfriend Erin, who was a fan of the series, pointed it that it was a must that I meet, greet, and get an autograph of Kimmy Robertson, who played the quirky, squeaky Lucy Moran on the series, when I saw her at the Hollywood Show on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Following my 20 year class reunion, excitement ceased for a great while. I had been doing a lot of traveling and having fun, spending great times with Erin, seeing the world, meeting celebrities, eating my way through the restaurants of America, and spending money like water. But once we hit the dog days of summer, it all came to a crashing halt. Worse yet, it became all-too- clear that a long-distance relationship wasn’t going to work. Erin and I were a great match for the times that we were together, but by August 1, we had decided that the distance and circumstances were going to mean that we would have to call it quits. I still haven’t quite been able to reconcile that one. Read the rest of this entry »