Discovering Anomalies
My grandmother was born in the year 1899 two weeks before the turn of the century and she was one of nine children. About two years before I was born her mother passed away. I didn’t get the chance to know her or my great grandfather, which I do not recall any one ever mentioning him, or how it was he had died. Continue reading “Our 70s Summers”
The start of a school year should be an exciting time for a child. It should be, but often times it isn’t. It has been so long now, that I don’t recall my first day of school, and/or whether or not I was excited about it. However, I can remember certain place setting events that happened all throughout my primary education.
Some times we would spend a week or two at one or the other of my Aunt’s farm homes during the summer. It was those times, I would be up at the crack of dawn and let the adventures begin. There were cows and chickens and geese, oh my, with 40 acres of land to explore. I loved to wander out into the Continue reading “Felt Like a Benedict Arnold”
Soon after graduating high school I obtained my first job. Not really a first, as before that I would babysit the neighbor’s granddaughter, on weekends and in the summer. However, my first real job as a cashier of a Five & Dime. I was excited, but a bit apprehensive too, because I didn’t know how to count back change and I was afraid of making a mistake and embarrassing myself.
In the early 70s, when I was about 10 or maybe 11 years of age, my brother, eight years older than me, got a job with a computer company in Dallas. I remember thinking, he must be really smart, to get a job like that. I don’t remember what his job title was or his job description, probably, because no one really talked about it. And they probably didn’t talk about it, because my parents didn’t really know Continue reading “Information Super Highway”