Regularly referring to myself as a life-long Minnesotan, I overlook the fact that my family lived in Oklahoma for a couple years when I was young. In fact, my public education began while we lived in Tulsa. I started kindergarten the week after we arrived in 1972 and completed first grade shortly before we left […]
How Deep is Your Love
In the spring of 1997, I was 30 years-old and approaching the third anniversary of marriage to my best friend and soul mate, Michelle. After a long winter, we felt the sudden need to get away from the cold. So we spontaneously booked a last-minute vacation to Cancun, Mexico. Even though we knew it would […]
Into the Mystic
In my early years of bachelorhood I found myself working the evening shift. There weren’t many benefits to working 3-11pm every day (I called it the anti-social shift). But one of the things I really enjoyed was relaxing, by myself, late on the weeknights after work. Whether I was still living at home with my […]
Sea of Love
During my junior and senior years in high school, I was a ridiculously proud – and perhaps occasionally obnoxious – Led Zeppelin fan (see my post Live in Peace for more on this). So in the fall of 1984, as I began my senior year, I was thrilled to hear the latest MTV news that Robert […]
Operator
I became familiar with Jim Croce at a rather young age, but I’ll readily admit this was only because our elementary school principal was named Leroy Brown, just like the main character in Jim’s #1 1973 hit, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. There was no end to the humor there. Even my fellow third graders understood […]