THE WILD GAS FIELDS OF ALBERTA 1997
This next post is from a time, while I was still trying to run my own business, in Calgary. It had been a whirlwind of work for the last 3 years. The contracts I received, had kept my butt overseas,…
1995-1996 THAILAND & READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD SINGLE HANDED
Although, often distracted, I am trying to work my way thru memories of my life, in a somewhat chronological order. In this Post, I am going to describe one of the jobs I took on, while starting a business, in…
1994/5 A NEW LIFE AND SUDDENLY BUSY AGAIN (pic of 1st office in Calgary)
For the past few weeks and around the Christmas 2020 period. I have deviated and gone astray from the chronology of our life. Since finding each other in the Andes of Peru in early 1978. The chronology part, has taken…
THE DAY I HUNG MYSELF UP IN OUR TREE – GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
Today I will post a memory from recent times before I lose grip on it forever. It appears that memories from a few short months ago are becoming harder to retain than those of 60 years ago. So, before I…
THE GREAT HOCKEY SAGA & HOW DAD SAVED MY LIFE (photo of D1 poised to score)
This memory comes from a time when I was about, Junior High age, the same age as D1 shown in the picture above. I did not have a picture of myself so had to use one of him. However the…
JIMBORED REMEMBERS THE INVENTION OF TV AND SEATTLE WORLDS FAIR – 1957
Now that I have pried loose some early memories of my childhood, I find that I am hit with a flood of flashbacks to the past. It is as if I have unleashed long pent up “dogs to the hunt”.…
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES II – CATCHING MORE FIREFLIES (dad top row, left end WWII)
In this post, I will continue from where I left off yesterday. I will dredge up a few more pieces of incidents I remember from childhood. Wherever possible, I try to filter out parts of these memories that I am…
MEMORIES THAT FLIT PAST AS FIREFLIES IN THE NIGHT (picture of dad in the 1920’s)
In this first blog of 2021, and still, while mostly, under Deysi’s program of self isolation, I am going to gather up some more flashes from my early days. Understand, there is not one chain of memories, that link me…
ANOTHER QUICK TRIP TO CANADA FROM MARYLAND 1994
Today, I am journeying back, in my mind, early in the year 1994. At that time we had been relocated to our company’s home office in Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. We had been transferred to the DC area…
A MEMORY OF IRON MIKE TYSON IS REVIVED THIS WEEKEND
A memory from Scotland, in the year 2000, was jarred loose this past weekend. When I realized that a boxing match was being held by two elderly fighters. Their names, Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Both of whom have…
