Category Archives: friends and family

I missed Valentine’s Day and couldn’t even get it together for his birthday 11 days later.  But my friend finally got his gift last Wednesday.  It was something I knew he needed to hear ever since I met his new girlfriend Paula several years ago.  The recipient would be Ott, named Terry by his parentsContinue reading “nurse!”

Donna asked that I fill in the blank with my family (ies) so she could keep things straight. Like Paul sang in “She came in through the bathroom window” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVv7IzEVf3M “oh, look out!” So we need to start with the family I grew up with.  I’ve been unable to unearth the photobooks of mine from those times,Continue reading “fam”

Since last July, when the planned 50th reunion celebration for the Vicksburg High School class of 1970 got nixed because COVID, I’ve been setting up Zoom meetings for those classmates of mine with an e-mail address. Initially, I found only 60 or so of those out of our class of 169, but we’d had severalContinue reading “50 years”

How sad and hard it is to write about someone who’s been so important to you.  I’ll have to say Aunt Dorie began for me as the baby daughter of Bill and Vera, my mom Marion the star to rise and snatch Dick, who would be my dad.  Doris, as the less marriageable, was offContinue reading “Aunt Dorie”

No doubt when the ball drops tonight in Times square, not a soul will shed a tear for the passing of 2020.  The appropriate vitriol this tumultuous year has engendered is only poorly represented by a logo someone has come up of it.  Dare I confess then, that 2020 has been a pretty good yearContinue reading “An ode to 2020”

(I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, entering the football season that had not yet begun with the Minnesota game. I blew right past the Gophers and focused on State. Three games in, it’s not looking so good for our Wolverines. But, my beautiful wife still loves Michigan!) It started pretty early.  Kathy’s motherContinue reading “My beautiful wife loves Michigan”

Tommy hasn’t been part of my life for over thirty years, except for the memories.  Soon, that’ll be all I have. Tommy is a year and a half older than me, but was always light years ahead intellectually and academically.  He was the brightest medical student my later mentor Bill Arnold had seen at UniversityContinue reading “TDP”

Sue Moore of Vicksburg died suddenly and unexpectedly May 27 at the 82. She was editor and publisher of the South County News. Her newspaper asked for reflections on her life. Here was mine: Dear Ms Lane I’m a VHS ’70 grad who left for bigger things but never got Vicksburg out of my heart. Continue reading “goodbye Sue”

Carol Clausing of Albuquerque is the oldest of my 4 living cousins on my father’s side. Kathy and I yesterday went to visit a lot of the people we both know. I sent her this account. Hello cousin, Kathy and I visited some Ikes yesterday, and a few other family.  We make this trip everyContinue reading “remember”

Nathan Wei, late of Frederick, Maryland, died of gastric cancer two years ago March at age 68.  His wife held his memorial service at his packed house in Laytonsville just about two years ago.  She asked the men to wear bowties, which Nathan so liked to sport when he had to wear a tie (heContinue reading “missing Nathan”