Category Archives: Friends

Friends are what the world is about!

Happy New Years Eve 2025!

Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2025 by Paul

For whatever reason, we decided to go to the gym on New Year’s Eve, DUH!!  On the bright side, we will be flexible for this evening.  We specifically asked to have the legs stretched so we could dance the entire … Continue reading →

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I Remember It Well!

Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2025 by Paul

It is now December 2020, and Sue has been gone for almost ten months.  Christmas would have been sad except that Dr. Mary entered my life, and my kids readily welcomed her into the family with open arms.  I introduced … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve 1987

Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 by Paul

In 1987, I left home and was in the process of getting a divorce.  I moved into an apartment near work in mid-summer.  I missed the kids, and they were pretty much mad at me for leaving.  I understood, but … Continue reading →

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Getting My Picture Taken At Christmas!

Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 by Paul

Every year from the time I was one until my mid-teens, Mom insisted that we go to a photo studio and get my picture taken.  Yearly pictures at Christmas made sense, as my birthday was mid-December and Christmas was a … Continue reading →

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Mary Got A Bike!!!

Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2025 by Paul

I asked Mary to share one of her Christmas memories: I lived in a small town called Medford, Oregon, with a population of 15,000.  As you know, I was born into a low-middle-income family, and my foster parents tried to … Continue reading →

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The INTERCOMM

Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2025 by Paul

When I was in Junior High School, I took “Electric Shop,” where we learned Ohm’s law, how to use meters, and the proper way to run power plugs.  For the last project, we built an Intercom from a five-vacuum-tube radio. … Continue reading →

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I Was At Work Christmas Eve In 1968!

Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2025 by Paul

I was lucky enough to work on the Apollo Program and knew these folks (at least to talk to and work with while they were in Downey).  I worked on their space machine (Apollo Command and Service Modules).  I was … Continue reading →

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A Day Of Almost Rest!

Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2025 by Paul

Contrary to popular opinion, I was NOT the only one to receive Christmas presents.  Dad listened to Mom most of the time, and on Christmas morning, Mom got up to find a LARGE package in the living room addressed to … Continue reading →

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Call The Fire Department!

Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2025 by Paul

Christmas Memories: Dad was the General Manager of a 13-store dime-store chain called “Ralph’s  5, 10, and 25 Cent Stores”.  Dad and the boss, Ralph David Lebowitz, shared the chain’s buying responsibilities.   They went to wholesalers’ warehouses to make their … Continue reading →

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Ugly With a Capital UGH

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 by Paul

Christmas Memories: Mom was always artistic and perhaps what todaywe would call “avant-garde”.  It is Christmas time in 1956, and I am ready to come home from school, wait for Dad to get home, and then go out and pick … Continue reading →

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