OkieMan

When in doubt, jump in the pool.

Summer 1960. My irascible aunt Elsie and I finally arrived in Wilson, Oklahoma. Elsie went on to her cousins and I checked in at my Grandmothers. Never the less, After arriving at my grandmother’s house in Wilson and all we dozens of cousins were settled in, we were assigned our sleeping spot. My cousin JackyContinue reading “When in doubt, jump in the pool.”

Think Snow.

So it’s Christmas. We rode with my friends parents to downtown Los Angeles to Pershing Square. On the ground level was a landscaped park with normal variety of trees, bushes, and mowed grass with a paved common area for gatherings and political speeches. However we were just looking for the underground parking entrance. Once weContinue reading “Think Snow.”

Don’t be chicken

Fried chicken was the main event on our Sunday after church dinner table. It was a team effort between my mom and my dad. At our residence in East Los Angeles we raised dozens of chickens in our middle yard. Dozens of Rhoade Island reds. We probably raised about forty or fifty hens and twoContinue reading “Don’t be chicken”

Today’s real woman

The essence of professionalism. Seen walking in a downtown Tulsa parking garage. A very professional looking woman. A thirty-something woman dressed in a trim blue blazer with a tan colored skirt and walking in four-inch hills. Shaded with large dark framed sunglasses sat atop a very feminine nose and modestly colored lips and cheeks. Continue reading “Today’s real woman”

Surely she was an officer in her organization.

I’m walking, yes indeed I’m Walking.

My kids don’t believe me. I had walked two miles or more one way each day to and back from school. Starting in kindergarten and still walked everyday all the way through my senior year in high school. Rain, sleet, ice storms, snow, Wild fire, earthquake, barking dogs, panhandlers, and cracked sidewalks. All walking throughContinue reading “I’m walking, yes indeed I’m Walking.”

I would like to live in Disneyland.

/ The best of the second ten years. Age eleven June 1955. Our uncle who lived in Anaheim called up one day and asked if we kids would like to go with him and see this new place called Disneyland. I responded with a solid YES. Let’s go. So, a few days later along withContinue reading “I would like to live in Disneyland.”

So this is real radio

/ Oh I forgot, there was this in the first ten years. There were dials, buttons, and switches. All up and down the walls. Reels of tape were whirling and stopping. Bouncing Needles on dials were whisking back and forth plunging into the red zone. It all looked like the control room of a FlashContinue reading “So this is real radio”

Left holding the bag.

Air travel, kids, and throwing up. I will not name names but both daughters have upchucked more than once either before flying or inflight. And I say this because some other kids while flying seem to be okay with air travel. Meaning not throwing up. But there was this one time at about 25KContinue reading “Left holding the bag.”

Waiting for snow in L A.

Oh yes, then there was this in the first ten years. East Los Angeles 1949. It was a chilling cold and near freezing January morning. In retrospect, a bit cold for southern California. I was in kindergarten at Montebello Park Elementary school and this was the only time I was at the same school myContinue reading “Waiting for snow in L A.”