Ever have an April Fool’s trick played on you? I have. Years ago, when we were children, my brother enjoyed tricking us on April 1st. One year he put green food coloring into the milk bottle. Let me tell you, nobody wanted to drink it that April 1st. I’m pretty sure [...]
Looking back on the early teenage years, it’s a wonder that our parents survived us! This story is a follow- up from our previous story, “Wait About Ten Years to Tell Them”. My friend Randy (one of the three) wrote the story, so I’ll try to keep close to his version with my own personal [...]
The other night I made pasta with white clam sauce for the boys. But even though I was standing in my kitchen, I was really with my family at the beach where I vacationed as a child. It was always a vacation near the ocean, probably because my dad grew up in the [...]
In our family, the 1970’s were punctuated by moves. Dad took a new position, or a new job, and it meant packing up the house into the corrugated cardboard boxes by the men from Mayflower, Altas or United Van Lines. I don’t recall my first house, but I’ve seen photos and heard stories [...]