I can see this bridge from my loft. I love that it is being renamed for one of my heroes. One of the highlights of my life happened about ...

40 Years Ago today I began computer programming training in Kansas City . I flew in from Houston to interview for the promotion a few we...

To start out, I must say that my expectations are usually pretty low for movie sequels. There have been a few good ones for sure. These ...

My dad passed away on January 19, 2002. A few years ago I remembered him on Father's Day by posting the eulogy I gave at his funeral. T...

I went to high school with John. I remember him as a very popular guy. He played both basketball and baseball. We both graduated in 1966. J...

Here is a recap (with links to the posts) of my April postings of the places that I have lived or visited: Vintage Bob Arizona :: a 3...

Ever since we moved to Kansas City in 1976 we would take a week or two of vacation time around the holidays to travel east to see my famil...

My first visit to this city in Westchester County, New York was in 1973. I was being considered for a computer programming position there. ...

One of the most memorable things on our ten day June 1999 vacation to the Pacific Northwest was visiting Victoria, the capital city of Bri...

After spending some time at Niagara Falls, Ann and I continued celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary in Toronto. We stayed at a hotel i...

My first nineteen years of life were lived in five different rental houses on Forest Avenue. I have memories of four of these places - I w...

About 20 of us left Kansas City for a two week trek in early 1987. After stops in Dallas and Los Angeles we transferred planes and boarded...

Pronounced Oh-lay-tha, this city was the first one that Ellen, our dog Max (pictured) and I lived in Kansas. I was 27 when we bought our fi...

In June 2005 my wife and I celebrated our 10th anniversary in Niagara Falls. Our hotel room overlooked the horseshoe falls on the Canadia...

I grew up knowing that I had a lot of cousins in Mississippi. My Dad grew up there. He left when he was 17 to join the Civilian Conservati...

I was 35 when I bought my fourth house on two and a half acres in a suburb of Kansas City. My son was four and my daughter six months old. ...

I came to KC almost 40 years ago. I first flew in to interview for a promotion. In July 1976 I began training to be a computer programmer. ...

I was discharged from the US Army on October 4, 1971. It was a day that I had long waited for. I journeyed back to Staten Island with my ne...

Is the Internet a place? Hard to say. It is a part of cyberspace and lives in different server farms. The truth is I really could not think...

Almost 30 years ago the bearded guy pictured on the right departed Kansas City to smuggle bibles into China. I made three trips from Hong ...