From Small Town Boy to World Traveler
I can’t believe I’m going to share this story, but one trait I’ve had most of my life is allowing my life to be an open book. I’ve never felt the need for a therapist to solve my problems, because if I’m worried about something my wife and closest friends will soon know about it […]
As noted earlier, my father was an accountant for International Paper Company in Kansas City, Missouri from 1950 thru 1952. The office where he worked was part of an office/warehouse complex. During lunch one day he walked from his office, through the warehouse to smoke outside on a loading dock. He began to tell a […]
During our brief two years in Kansas City, my mother (Lou) and father (A.B.) made friends with another couple. I suppose that either the husband or the wife worked with my Dad. I never knew their names. They lived on the other side of town. I was too young to recall what side of Kansas […]
When I was 4 years old, living in Kansas City, Missouri during the early 1950’s, my father took me with him to downtown Kansas City to shop for Christmas gifts. This was when America was safe, but this story will make you wonder about my safety and have you questioning my young Dad’s parenting skills […]
Long before Jim and Jane Henson introduced the Muppets to America in 1955, America had Howdy Doody, a highly popular TV show that featured Buffalo Bob Smith and his puppet character, Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob was originally a radio announcer in New York and invented the voice for an imaginary character named Howdy Doody. He […]
As noted heretofore, I lived in Kansas City, Missouri from the ages of 2 thru 4. I only have six vivid memories of those early years in Kansas City. The one I addressed earlier (i.e., shooting my sister in the mouth with an arrow), trying to find my lost Dad, cutting my hand on a […]
That’s a crazy title for a post, right? But it’s true, it really happened. I was four years old and my sister Pam was was about 18 months old. It took place during the two-year period we lived in Kansas City, Missouri — before we moved back home to Anacoco, Louisiana to live on my […]