Suprise Me

Hi, I came across your story of Joy and Arthur quite by chance after a random google search. I married my childhood sweetheart in 1968 at St Mark’s Church on the Overcliffe Gravesend Kent England. We met when she was sixteen and I was seventeen. We only had until 1988 when she sadly died. Her… Read More

The Jane Addams HS boys basketball team with Coach Jon Ostrow (Ozzie) in the blue shirt. A Favor for the Coach I’ve shared many memories of my years working at Jane Addams HS.   (See Magazines for the Principal , The Diary of a Young Girl,  Going Back to Work , Mr October  and The Parking Lot… Read More

Take off your hat! Read More

But I couldn't just say yes. I broke into song. Read More

I wouldn’t have taken it if I hadn’t been sure of its provenance. Read More

Autocorrect makes me crazy, always trying to improve on my pretty-perfect spelling. Like substituting the word ‘ass’ for ‘asp.’ Now why would it even bother?! Does it think I picked the wrong animal? And how will children ever learn to spell when Autocorrect cleans up after them? I have an editor’s eye for misspellings though… Read More

Learning to ride a bike can teach you some key lifelong lessons. That's what my red rocket did. Read More

One of the mothers made these costumes. Yes, I still have mine. Read More

You never know when you will need a computer repair genius. Read More

James Taylor described himself metaphorically as a handyman.  I’m the real thing. Read More