Like most people, I have a few (???) artifacts from the past in the house.
( Published Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 3:02 pm )]]> Finding the strength to say goodbye,
( Published Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 11:18 am )]]> If you will bear with me, I will try to bring this post to a point. Memory triggers of past events are often disturbing, but they don't always have to be regardless of what the Google says.
( Published Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 8:59 am )]]> My first grandchild had his 2nd birthday recently and his parents gave him a ukulele. My son asked me to tune it for him. I told him he was too young to appreciate the tuning but it was better just to let him get used to making sounds. The music might come later.
( Published Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am )]]> There is always a part II to most of my stories. Most of the time I do not publish them here on BCN because even I know that very few care about Part I, so a Part II is further proof that my own narcissistic tendencies have overcome my better judgement.
( Published Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 4:58 am )]]> The fact is that music has always been a major part of my family since I was born. My dad was a self taught musician. We always had instruments around the house.
( Published Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 8:04 pm )]]> As with many of his other compositions, Leroy Anderson wrote the Typewriter for orchestra, completing his work on October 9, 1950. Various ensembles have covered it many times.
( Published Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016 @ 11:08 pm )]]> Stories my dad told me about his life as an Atlanta Fireman Updated with Corrections in narrative
( Published Monday, March 7th, 2016 @ 3:42 pm )]]> Pepsi admits that its bottled water is just Tap Water
( Published Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:38 pm )]]> ;A Pecan pie is better if you picked the pecans, shelled them and made the ice cream yourself
( Published Saturday, January 16th, 2016 @ 3:19 am )]]> How will the regulars be able to cope with the possibility of being a homeless drinker?
( Published Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 1:48 am )]]> Aside from the obvious investment value of certain antiques, there is a valid reason for everyone to have a few scattered around the house or property.
( Published Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 12:45 pm )]]> Hitting the lottery was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. I should know because, I have hit it several times in my time life here on earth.
( Published Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm )]]> Gallagher guitars are hand crafted in a small town in Tennessee since 1965.
( Published Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 4:20 pm )]]> Here is some history about firefighting. Like many things forwarded and found on the internet, I have not been able to source this information but found it interesting. All my life I have heard the phrase "Fire Plug" and I must admit that my "Intellectual Curiosity" never reached the point of lookin
( Published Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:46 am )]]> I have an old musket in my trophy room from my dad's family. It hung in the basement of our house all my life. After my parents passed, my brother hung it in his garage for a few years. It eventually ended up in my son's collection. It came back to me after he a few years when my son sold his hou
( Published Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 5:05 pm )]]> Back during the CB craze almost every city had a CB handle. Tampa was the Cigar City and probably still is, but its biggest cigar producer closed down in 2009.
( Published Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 9:56 pm )]]> As a first time grandpa, I have no experience on how to perform the role, so naturally I went back into the picture archive and searched for some help.
( Published Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 2:40 am )]]> What is was like to be raised in Atlanta in later 1940 through 1950s
( Published Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 1:55 am )]]> How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
( Published Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:29 pm )]]> How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
( Published Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:34 am )]]> After a digilent search throught his Ancestory.com files, Bobby Tony finds a few rebels in the tree.
( Published Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:39 pm )]]> Stories my dad told me about his life as an Atlanta
( Published Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 2:12 pm )]]> An old man indulges himself in memories of a lost relative whose birthday rolls around again.
( Published Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm )]]> I may have taken 70 years, but it was worth the wait.
( Published Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 3:54 am )]]>