An Anniversary and a Birthday Celebration

2nd Row-James, Belinda, Myself, Guy, Annmarie, Daryl, Erica, Bev, and Curt 1st Row-Danielle, Mom/June, Shylah, Dad/Bob, and Emily

Written on 6-25-13.

    Two days ago, my siblings and I hosted a 50th wedding anniversary celebration for our parents at Belmar Park.  Mom and Dad picked out the location there, a one-room schoolhouse that had an additional room added on for larger group events like ours.  It was a special event with plenty of family and close friends in attendance.  Part of my contribution was editing, revising, and then telling the story of how Mom and Dad met over fifty years ago. Mom wrote it to near completion, but I made some revisions, more to make it ready for me to read out loud than anything; it was already so well written.  Then some other people chimed in to help make the story even better for the upcoming audience that would hear it. 
    I read it...

My Golf "Sing" Thoughts

    When I play, songs pop into my head, a variety of songs that I know, but some are related to golf in specific ways.  I want to remember these golf-related songs, so I am going to capture them here.  I’ve started to write them down on the scorecards to transfer later.  These are the songs, and the reasons why they pop in and visit when I play.  I am also making a playlist through iTunes.
    This first one is funny to me, but it fits.  It’s...

Father's Day and a New Chipping, Pitching Style

Written on 6-16-14.

    What a fantastic Father’s Day weekend!  I am watching the end of the U.S. Open, and I got to play golf this morning with C.J.  Looks like Justin Rose will be our winner this year, but Phil and Hunter are still playing. 
    I have two birdies to record, and I just broke 80 again today after a stretch of not so great golf.  Also, my family and I had a most enjoyable evening out on Friday where we saw a matinee of the newest Superman movie, Man of Steel.  After the movie, we got some errands done and browsed at Hasting’s where I found a Mike + the Mechanics CD I had been trying to find for a while.  It has one of my favorite songs on there titled Hanging by a Thread.
    *Can Phil Mickelson...

Beckoned (and Blessed) to Be Back to the Bisti

Written on 6-13-13.

    I am sitting alone in the Cultural Center at San Juan College.  It’s lunchtime, and everyone else has left me here with my thoughts and my laptop.  I am a returning fellow for this summer’s Bisti Writing Project, invited back after a bit of a hiatus.  Two years ago at about this time, I was having problems with headaches and getting sick.  Then my co-director leadership was sliced in half after a fateful MRI that put everything on hold.
    It’s been a fabulous return.  I was a bit nervous.  I have some terrible memories, of course, (wonkiness, pain, vomiting, etc.), and it was no fault of the Writing Project; it was just the timing of it all.  I so enjoy the Bisti Writing Project; it’s a family where I feel honored to be a member. 
    The new fellows are...

I Love My Cart Babe

                My Cart Babe/Wife, Belinda

Written on 6-4-13.
       
    Belinda and I are entertaining ourselves (as inexpensively as we can) while the children are away.  We are doing a retirement preview.  It was Belinda’s idea to "one-up" each other with activities that would be both fun and frugal.  I started last week on Thursday.  I know Belinda enjoys having her tiles scrubbed, so I offered to scrub the tiles with her in the dining room, the kitchen, and the laundry room.  I even threw in cleaning underneath the refrigerator, the stove, and the washer and drier. 
    The stove was the most fascinating.  We had not cleaned under there since...