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My Mother always tried out new recipes to serve the family. Swedish pancakes, Ebelskiver, Springerle, Pilaf and countless breads to name just a few things she made. Why she even pasteurized milk and made butter. Because of the multicultural environment here in Fresno, Shish Kabob became a favorite family dinner. She would get the real […]
Over the years I’ve had a number of bicycles, my favorite being a Luison Bobett in a beautiful metallic green color. My father bought the ten speed bicycle for my birthday, but unfortunately, I did not have it for very long as someone removed it from my possession. Bicycle theft was and is an ongoing […]
At the age of 14, I started working for pay for the first time at the Boy Scout Camp as a kitchen helper, where we fed 300 people per meal. One of my main duties was washing the dishes, and sometimes the auto dishwasher worked and sometimes it didn’t. Dishwasher or potato peeler, I put […]
When I was in kindergarten, there were over 85 kids in our class, and it took two teachers and some aids to keep us all corralled and in line. The room was extremely large to hold all of us and even had a full-size playhouse in the middle of the classroom. The bathrooms were on […]
My Father was a consummate learner and as such was a great teacher. During his lunch hours, siting outside on the sidewalk on Amador, he once watched as masons built a brick fence for a new business across the street. He would go over and ask questions about how to set brick and how to […]
Sometime after my father returned from WWII with his two purple hearts, he was helping his father to split eucalyptus for firewood. A couple of things to understand about eucalyptus wood: The hydraulic log splitter had yet to be developed Eucalyptus wood is nearly impossible to split due to the fibrous nature of the grain […]
My paternal grandmother became blind before I was born. She had gone through all the emotional stages when one has a disability thrown at them. So, my first childhood memories are filled with a productive, coping, loving blind grandmother. On one occasion she turned to me with a cookie in her hand projecting in my […]
The following excerpt is my personal philosophy based on my own life experiences. As I point out, this is a highly charged subject and I will not solve the world’s problems in regards to education and development of handicapped children. Few things are as emotionally charged as bringing forth a child that has a physical […]
Many years ago, I was leading a group of Boy Scouts out of the back country near Lillian Lake when we came upon another group of Scouts hiking in. They were resting, so we decided to rest also. After dropping off my back pack, I went over to talk with the “other” Scoutmaster. He had […]
The past couple of weeks has given me time to pause in amazement. I went into the grocery store to buy my wife a jar of lemon juice. As I waited in line, the lady in front of me saw that I had only one item to buy and kindly allowed me go ahead of […]