Riding With Jimmy
When I was on the Phillips Petroleum engineers training program, I was able to spend time with personnel in the various job areas in the oil field. This story reflects some of my experiences with a field operator. Continue reading
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The Duck Hunt
The Duck Hunt
Trying to be a Good Samaritan sometimes gets you into situations for which there is no easy solution and which may have repercussions on the samaritan. It’s complicated, so here’s the story. Continue reading
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
Women are generally very self conscious about their weight. Sometimes they are willing to subject them selves to very strange programs to remove that extra pound. This story relates my experience with one of those weird programs. Continue reading
The Rubiks Cube
The Rubiks Cube
Who would ever think a 6 year old girl could deceive a 24 year old man with a PHD in Medical Science? This story describes how it happened. Continue reading
The Limit
The Limit
During many of the summers when our daughters were growing up, our family traveled to South Fork, Colorado to spend time with my Mom and Dad at their cabin near the Rio Grande River. Two of my aunts and uncles also had cabins there, and my wife’s Mom and Dad also bought a cabin there. It was like a family reunion each summer since we all tried to vacation at the same time. One summer when we were up there, I had a very special outing with my oldest daughter, Kristi, who was about five years old at the time. Here’s my story. Continue reading
The Jump Rope
The Jump Rope
Sometimes people have have hidden talents that are never developed. This story is about one special young lady with a special talent that was developed and enjoyed by many audiences. Continue reading
The Fred Shuffle
The Fred Shuffle
Have you ever felt like someone has stolen one of your creations and made a fortune off of it? This is exactly how my friend Gary and I felt, but I’m getting ahead of the story. Continue reading
Insights
Insights
As we plow through the joys and pains of our lives, we develop certain unwritten standards by which we live. Take the time to write them down and you’ll be surprised with what you come up with. Here’s some I wrote down a few years ago. Continue reading
Carotid
Carotid
I know what it feels like to be completely blind in one eye for a period of time. We should all thank the good Lord for our vision. When it’s gone, there’s just blackness. Here’s the story as it happened to me. Continue reading
MaMo and PoPo’s Pride
MaMo and PoPo’s Pride
Like most older people, I love my grandchildren dearly. Occasionally l like to catch some of their character traits in writing. This is a poem I wrote a couple of years ago describing them at that time. Of course they have changed considerably since that time, but I captured my thoughts at the time. Write down some of your thoughts as you get older. It’s fun to go back and read them later. Continue reading