Postcards from Grandpa F – Part 1
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
I’ve always loved looking at old postcards. The pastel-like painted colors and the fountain-tip pen scrawl across the flip side – if the card happened to be filled out – both ring incredibly nostalgic. It’s also cool to think about someone’s vacation and what was going on in their lives nearly 70 years ago. These paticlular cards that I am going to share are even more precious to my family and me because they were written from my Grandpa to my Grandma before they were married.
Mom and I spent the better part of last weekend (3/3 and 3/4) visiting with Aaron, Denise, and of course my superstar nephew Adam. We didn’t get going until about 2:30 pm on Saturday afternoon, but we arrived in plenty of time to get some quality Adam exposure. We all went out to eat at Las Margaritas, a Mexican restaurant (obviously) where Adam slept through most of dinner. After we returned back to the house, we all marveled at Adam as he was fed his traditional nightly rice dinner and was bathed. 
Following our wonderful 
As I mentioned, I was attempting to collect the autographs of the stars of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World during the Summer of 1985, so the next logical person to write to on August 13 (the day after I wrote to Hank Aaron, Jim Backus, Dom DeLuise, and Milton Berle) was Buddy Hackett. He played the character of Benjy Benjamin, who was described in the film as the gut with the “marbles in his mouth.” I always remembered that. 
It was with bittersweet sadness that we attended the traditional farewell brunch at the 15th International Sons of the Desert convention held in Augusta, Georga on Sunday, July 16, 2006 – as it also is bittersweet making this last posting of the trip that began