821 Views
2 Comments
821 Views
1876 Views
1876 Views
Once upon a time, when I did what real men do, I was a Cobra (gunship) pilot. And I was driving back from an airfield where I was the safety officer in charge of some REAL cosmic stuff, and I noticed a pilot walking along,...
1115 Views
1115 Views
1232 Views
1232 Views
791 Views
791 Views
This week's prompt is about Nicknames, so I thought I'd write about my family's given names and nicknames. My given name is Sandra Jean Smith. Jean was my mother's middle name. When I got married, I became Sandra Jones . How common and boring can you get.? I should have at...
1198 Views
1198 Views
Prompt: What nicknames have you had? Who knew you that way? How did the nickname come about? Which nicknames do you like or dislike? As I look back over my lifetime, my earliest nickname was "little sammy". Some of my father's friends called him "Sam" and I don't know who or...
863 Views
863 Views
Some of my earliest memories, throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, are of sitting around the dinner table with my mom, dad, and sister. Dinner was at 5 o’clock prompt. Mom cooked every night. It was just something we did. Didn’t everyone? When I began working in NYC and not getting off...
2904 Views
2904 Views
My first memory of Valentine's Day is Fourth Grade. My mother was a homeroom mother and that meant she was responsible for the Valentine Party in my class at school. She took a hat box and decorated it for all the Valentines of all my classmates. It was...
819 Views
819 Views
1185 Views
1185 Views
1099 Views
1099 Views
While the past year is freshest in my mind, I'm documenting a 2012 legacy story that reflects a defining moment or milestone event. On Friday, May 25th, 2012 I picked up my yearbook and went to the front office of Payson Junior High School in Payson, Utah (where I taught middle...
1115 Views
1115 Views
Now that 2012 is becoming a distant memory I will undoubtedly forget much of what happened as time rolls on. So, I thought I'd write some random thoughts while they are fresh on my mind. The biggest elephant in the room for me has been the all-consuming challenge of building the...
1282 Views
1282 Views
1652 Views
1652 Views
1607 Views
1607 Views
1042 Views
1042 Views
1268 Views
1268 Views
1288 Views
1288 Views
Uncle Joe Uncle Joe was the seventh son born to Thomas Frederick and Mary Ellen Ball on January 10, 1912. His birth name was Joe Vell Ball. Of all the seven Ball brothers and the youngest one, Uncle Joe was the tallest. He probably...
1000 Views
1000 Views
1040 Views
1040 Views
