Spring Soccer 1980
April 29th, 2007
By no stretch of the imagination was I ever what one might consider athletic during my school days. In fact even before my days of chubbiness when I looked like a normal kid, I was rather clumsy and awkward. None of this, however, stopped me from participating in sports throughout my entire grade school experience. I endured season after season of t-ball, baseball, basketball, soccer, and wrestling. Oddly, the only sport that I really enjoy both watching and playing today is football – and that was one I never even attempted. Read the rest of this entry »
As I mentioned before, with all that was going on in my personal life, I sort-of mindlessy drifted through the 1990 Sons of the Desert convention. I was not very hot and heavy into collecting autographs at the time – although I certainly did gather a few from the celebs in attendence. As it turned out, this convention included very few: only three. I remember convention host Ron Young’s big dreams of actually getting Robert Blake and Robert Mitchum to show up, but that never panned out. 
I decided that I would like to incorporate some of my famous ‘sightseeing-vacation’ tendencies with the ‘relaxing-vacation’ theme of our trip to Myrtle Beach. In other words, I wanted to get out and actually do something – and visit a place where I could actually purchase a magnet or two to put on my refrigerator! So I talked my Mom and Denise into taking a trek into Charleston on Thursday, March 22. We got a relatively late start on Thursday morning, so after the ninety-minute drive to Charleston it was about 11:30am when we arrived. Mom, Denise, Ashleigh, Adam, and I made the trek. The Eds had other plans, mostly shopping for toys.