Memoirs

Yup... I was a good boy. I can't really prove this but it's something I'm deciding to believe is true and I do have some evidence that many of the adults in my early life agreed. That they considered even teenaged me, to be a young man they could trust. One example of this was [...]

My very first "real job" was in a Hospital. In my home town of Rochester, Minnesota (population around 55,000 at the time) the main employer was (and still is) the world famous Mayo Clinic and affiliated hospitals. It was 1976 and I was 17 years old. The company I worked for rented TVs to the patients [...]

I never stopped to think if it was wrong or right when they came to take poor Reggie for a ride ------------ And... they did come for him. At least once every time troupe #91 went camping, if Reggie was there, the older boys would always come for him. I know this because (like it [...]

I get my songs from what I’ve seen and things I think about True stories sung of when I was young yes, I was a Boy Scout ----------- Yes, I was... a Boy Scout. But not a very good one. Oh I wasn't a bad boy, no, no no. I used to be a good [...]

"There is no such thing as an insignificant act." -- Robert Augustus Masters. ------------------------- I lived in Osaka, Japan from 1995 to 2001. This is just one of many stories I will be sharing from those days. I've told it many times, and each time this lesson becomes clearer and clearer to me... It all started [...]

In how many languages, I wonder, do they have a greeting that is commonly used as both hello and goodbye? In Hawaiian it's aloha, and in Hebrew, shalom. I'm pretty sure that I learned about these words in elementary school and looking back, I can't think of an easier way of explaining the importance of [...]

I really can't remember now, but It was sometime between 1987 and 1991. I was at a street festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota called Cedarfest. This was one of my favorite of the summer festivals in "The Cities". It wasn't really very big, but Cedar avenue was blocked off where it ran by part of the [...]

If you search the web, you won’t find any reference to Hempstock (at least I couldn’t) so I doubt that it still happens (if indeed it ever really did) but something did happen… there was a happening, on that drugged out Labor Day weekend in 1992 (or was it in 1989 or 90… 91?) Well, [...]