JIMBORED, DINOSAUR HUNTER – 2006/7
One thing you find out quickly, shortly after retirement, is that you need some form of activity to fill in the long periods of free time, suddenly, at your disposal. For me, I already had a few. But even those…
I GOT MY KICKS ON ROUTE 66 – TUCUMCARI NEW MEXICO – 2008
This next trip through my fleeting and fading memory, takes place about 18 months after moving to Vancouver Island. Ange was living with us and attending University, or about to. Ron was now living in Newport Beach, California, a little…
THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF TWO BONE WEARY TRAVELLERS – 2005
I sit here in front of my typewriter at 6:00AM, staring in and looking for inspiration. None jumps out at me. I am coming to the realization, that as we aged, our life became far less exciting than it once…
PELE’ THE MEXICAN SOCCER PHENOM 2005
In the summer of 2005, shortly after our retirement in Calgary, I receive a call from my friend/associate in Mexico. It had been a while since we had been together, however, we were often in touch. Sale (pronounced Sal e’…
THE WANDERING GYPSIES BREAK FOR FREEDOM 2005
After a long hiatus, a devastating period of writer’s block and a dose of literary constipation, it is now fall of 2023 and I feel a loosening of my (bowels), read “mind”. My shaking old fingers, feel ready to attack…
JIMBORED KICKS SOME ASS IN THE MMA – HOUSTON 2002
Before I leave Texas, on my way into the lands of the forgotten. By that I mean retirement. I want to relate an opinion of something that changed many of my preconceived ideas of sports. Especially, the manly art of…
JIMBORED STORMS THE ALAMO -2002
Before I leave Texas, I must write my memories of the Alamo. For those who follow my feeble recounts, it will come as no surprise that I managed to find a history lesson there. It is hardly a secret, that,…
BUSTED IN SCHOOL MID SIXTIES
My next article comes from the deep recesses of my aging mind and takes me back to my high school days, circa 1965. The memory was triggered by a conversation with my eldest boy D1, over Easter. We were “chewing…
TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT – HOUSTON 2005
Aaaaahhh finally, I have reached a point, in my rambling thru life, where I have gloriously arrived at retirement. Oh Lord, how I dreamt of this day. My journey thru the cobwebs of my memory has very much, followed my…
THE GREAT JEWEL HEIST OF THE WOODLANDS TEXAS AND OTHER TRAUMAS
Not all of my memories from our time in Texas were of laughter and peace and tiptoeing thru the tulips. It’s just that JimboRed, in his fading light, mostly remembers the good times. However, this post is written about a…
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