Skip to content
  • Home
  • Milestones
  • My Life
    • Family & Friends
    • My Youth
    • Travel
    • Stories
    • Landscape Yard
    • Church Thoughts
  • Wisdom & Thoughts
    • Random Thoughts
    • Worthwhile
    • News & Health
    • Memes & Cartoons
    • Church Thoughts
  • Recipes
    • Dutch Pancakes
    • Eggs on Toast
    • Cinnamon Spread
    • Perfect Bacon
    • Perfect Fried Egg
    • French Toast
  • Videos, Music & Books
    • Family & My Youth
    • My Kid’s & Performances
    • Weddings & Trips
    • Emi & Nora Videos & Photos
    • All Music Videos
    • Baby Book
    • High School Yearbook
  • Contact Me
  • Home
  • Milestones
  • My Life
    • Family & Friends
    • My Youth
    • Travel
    • Stories
    • Landscape Yard
    • Church Thoughts
  • Wisdom & Thoughts
    • Random Thoughts
    • Worthwhile
    • News & Health
    • Memes & Cartoons
    • Church Thoughts
  • Recipes
    • Dutch Pancakes
    • Eggs on Toast
    • Cinnamon Spread
    • Perfect Bacon
    • Perfect Fried Egg
    • French Toast
  • Videos, Music & Books
    • Family & My Youth
    • My Kid’s & Performances
    • Weddings & Trips
    • Emi & Nora Videos & Photos
    • All Music Videos
    • Baby Book
    • High School Yearbook
  • Contact Me

A Journey into the Night

During the most difficult period of my life, I wrote this short story for an evening writing class that I took trying to keep busy and trying to get my personal life back on track. I was single again Read more

Read More
September 16, 1976 My Youth, Story

College Years

1964- 1969

My time at University of Wisconsin was a varied experience. I lived in a different place each of the four and one-half years that I spent there. An Engineering degree took 135 credits instead of the usual Read more

Read More
January 21, 1968 Milestone, My Youth

A Very Young Best Man

Happy 55th Wedding Anniversary, Richard & Ardis Loeber, August 26, 2022

One of my best friends, Dick Loeber, married a wonderful Nebraska girl named Ardis on this date. I do not remember how I got there, but I do Read more

Read More
August 26, 1967 Friends, My Youth, Wedding

Slide Rule

I went through the school of engineering before the days of even calculators, let alone computers. The only way to do the high-level math at that time was using a side rule and scientific notation.

It was not considered Read more

Read More
July 27, 1967 My Youth, Story

Most Spoiled Kid

The summer between my freshman and sophomore year in college, my dad bought a small, used Cessna 172 single engine plane. The intention was that he, my brother and I all take lessons that summer to get pilot’s licenses.

Read more

Read More
July 5, 1967 My Youth, Story

Red Corvair

During my high school years, when my brother and I were barely old enough to drive, my dad bought a 1964 Corvair Spyder convertible. At first, my brother and I thought that was cool, especially since it had a Read more

Read More
September 10, 1964 My Youth, Story

High School Years

1961 – 1964 Green Bay East High School

Things I remember about high school.

My memories of high school are generally good. I was not the member of any particular group other that maybe being one of those kids Read more

Read More
May 29, 1964 Milestone, My Youth

4:47 Mile in High School

My only claim to fame in high school sports was that I broke the five-minute mile in track and field twice. Unfortunately, I only won one race. I was one of those guys that was decent at everything sports-wise, Read more

Read More
April 6, 1964 My Youth, Story

Black Beauty

My dad bought a used 1957 Chevrolet my brother and I exactly as pictured. He bought it so we could get to school ourselves. It had a 3 speed manual shift on the column that we both thought was Read more

Read More
September 6, 1963 My Youth, Story

Beetle Farming

During my junior high years, I had a neighborhood friend named Chad who lived two blocks from us on Madison Street in Green Bay. I never understood why we were friends since we were nothing alike. He was a Read more

Read More
July 6, 1963 My Youth, Story

My lifelong journey to find my truth ( and even a few breakfast recipes)