Written by After Fred’s family farm was destroyed by a tornado this past spring, we’ve made several trips to Northwest Kansas to help his parents try to piece things back together, clean up, and relocate. We’ve been out there for a few days on this trip, and I have to get back to work in Kansas City. [...]
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Automobile Gymnastics
My son, Dan, is now 24 years old. Amazing. Especially considering I’m only 35. (Believe that? I’ve got a bridge to sell you.) He has his own car, works two jobs, and is generally a great young man. He’s a little shy, but has a good sense of humor and a lot of insight. I [...]
READ MORE »Joe and Tony
My father and I are in Branson to see my brother and his wife, and to celebrate my father’s 86th birthday. They tell us an old friend from New Jersey will be joining us for part of the weekend—a guy named Joe. They have told me about Joe in the past. He’s a great big [...]
READ MORE »Going once, going twice, sold! to Yip’s dad!
My father is 86 years old this month. He?’s in remarkably good shape for a man his age. He’?s always looked much younger than he is ? still as slender as he was in college, has all his teeth, beautiful thick salt-and-pepper hair, and his choice of widow women, if he wanted them. He doesn’t. [...]
READ MORE »A note of thanks to God and Robert Wagner
I haven?t been to a movie in quite a while. I like movies, I just don?t go much any more in my old age. I prefer to rent them and watch in the privacy of the not-so-great room at Hell?s Half Acre. Some movies lose a lot in the transfer from large screen to small, [...]
READ MORE »The straight boy wager
Saturday night, Diversity Weekend in Eureka. There are so many things to do, and so little time. Fred and I are lounging at the New Delhi, listening to live music and eating sandwiches. We’re having a two-person committee meeting to decide where to go and what to do. It’s dark, the evening is speeding along [...]
READ MORE »The Decorating Gene
I wasn’t lucky enough to be born with it. I hang around with a lot of gay people, but the gene doesn’t transfer to me. I’ve tried rubbing against gay men who have a talent for decorating (and other things) but osmosis doesn’t work. You either get it – along with straight, white teeth, thick [...]
READ MORE »Flight of Fantasy
May 2007 – Fred has to go back to northwest Kansas to help his parents in the cleanup of the family farm destroyed in a tornado two months ago. This is the third time he’s been out to help, staying anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. I’ve been out there twice, getting [...]
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