Category Archives: Remembering the Past

Who says there were no “wonder years”? Today is October 7 2009,  41 years since my neighbor was shot and killed in a rice paddy in Viet Nam. I was 14…he was 20 and each year since then I recall his … Continue reading →

As I drove up 400 east today I passed my alma mater, Orem High School.  In the parking lot a brand spankin’ new High School is nearly completed. I realized that if I did not stop, I might never walk those halls … Continue reading →

In 1906, J Dillion,  the watch-smith who was working on LINCOLN’S watch the day the civil war started revealed that he had engraved inside the back cover of the president’s watch an inscription concerning that event.  When asked what he had … Continue reading →

About 4 weeks ago, my 86 year old father was out pruning his roses.  It was part of his daily yard work ritual which he has carried out since he retired 30 years ago.  He has had two heart by-pass operations, one in … Continue reading →

  Tonight I noticed that Wade had posted another picture in his family album and so I went to look and see what it was.  As I perused the pictures I noticed a couple of Jack and Clea…As I sat … Continue reading →

It was a crisp October evening when I finished work.  I had seen a Lionel train in the collectable area of my local Deserert Industries THRIFT store for 100 dollars that I could purchase NEW for about $75,  so I knew … Continue reading →

I was talking to a friend of mine about the only times I have ever ridden in a one horse open sleigh the other day, and as I started telling the story of grandpa hitching up the sleigh that Alan and … Continue reading →

    On Christmas Eve, most of our converstions center around Christ, Saint Nicholas, or various Individuals who have defined this great tradtion for us.  I would like to add another name to the mix, at least for the Americans reading this.  The … Continue reading →

At the end of 2005 my daughter and her husband printed off and bound my blogs for that year…At the end of 2006 they did the same thing….and hopefully at the end of 2007 they will again bind volume 3 … Continue reading →

 It has been over three years since Alvin died.  For those of you who dont know Alvin, he was my neighbor who had muscular distrophy.  Due to some strange circumstances I found myself taking care of him after he was … Continue reading →