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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Here’s another story from the ranch. I was about 9 years old, and my friend John came up to the ranch for the weekend. He and I were exploring around one of the small ponds up there, no doubt skipping rocks, shooting our BB guns at turtles, and other similar stuff.
At one point, while […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Fear of Indian Attack
Growing up in the 70’s, I watched lots of “Cowboys & Indians” shows. One of my fears as a kid was that a band of rogue Indians were going to attack me out of nowhere.
This fear was fed by the fact that my parents had a small ranch in central Texas that we used as […]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Nick the Salesman
On Hazelwood, I had a friend named Nick. Whenever we got together, we pretty much spent all our time trying to come up with ideas of things to do, and about 90% of the ideas ended up getting us in trouble.
One of my favorite stories is the time that Nick and I decided we wanted […]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
The “Middle Street”
Many of my youthful escapades involved an imaginary war against “the Middle Street.” The next street over from Hazelwood (I don’t think I’ve ever known what it was called, although I suppose I could drive over there and look) was a dead-end street that had a group of kids that were slightly older than us. For […]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
The ice cream man
GW took a $50 bill and bought ice cream for all his friends and then carried the change home in a giant paper bag.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Growing up on Hazelwood
I spent the first 8 years of my life living on the corner of Hazelwood and Ashford Parkway in Houston. It was a great street to live on. My friends were Nick Baker, Robbie Cooksey, and Bobby Skinner. We got into lots of trouble together, as will be reflected in the next few posts.
I went […]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
My first fight
My grandfather was a Captain in the Houston Police Department. When I was about 6 years old, he gave me a fingerprinting kit for my birthday. I was playing with it in the yard one day, when the neighborhood bully showed up. Of course, he spilled the graphite powder (the most important part of the […]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
In the beginning…
I was born in Houston, Texas, on January 20, 1970. For some reason unknown to me, my biological parents didn’t want me. The best thing that ever happened to me is that my biological mother decided to put me up for adoption.
I arrived at 12502 Hazelwood Drive on January 22, 1970. Ready for action. Mother […]
