Tag Archives: childhood

In Search Of…..

Quote of the Day: “You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle? Down in the Bermuda Traingle Elvis needs boats. Elvis needs boats. Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis needs boats.” –Mojo Nixon Every kid at Eastlawn Elementary … Continue reading

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The Soundtrack of TB’s Life (The Early Years)

Quote of the Day: “At Haggerty’s and Swami’s Pacific Palisades San Onofre and Sunset Redondo Beach, L.A. All over La Jolla At Waiamea Bay, Everybody’s gone surfin’, Surfin’ USA….” –the Beach Boys In TB’s recent plea for help in the … Continue reading

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Princesses and Fairies and Tea Parties, and Scooters Too

Quote of the Day: “I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.”     —Princess Diana TB came across this article today about the subliminal messages being delivered to little girls … Continue reading

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Luck and Logic

Quote of the Day: “We talked into the night. The kind of talk that seemed important until you discover girls.” –the writer, Stand By Me The two boys laid flat on the roof and stared up at the endless black … Continue reading

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Football Season At Last

Quote of the Day: “Time, as we age, is often damaging. But this was one of the Lord’s good days, resting for me forever in a kind of somnolent tenderness. I was thirteen and it was a golden, luminous November’s … Continue reading

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Memories of Summer Nights

Quote of the Day:     “Hold on a minute. Don’t get out. I’ve got a feelin its about to come on.”     –Larry to TB, having a psychic moment circa 1986 correctly anticipating his favorite “Fort” song being … Continue reading

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Things Every Father Should Know (the lesser list)

Quote of the Day     “Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.”     Ephesians 6:4 TB was reminded yesterday by one of you loyal readers that a “lesser list” has not been posted in some time. I was … Continue reading

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Sometimes, I Miss Being a Kid

Quote of the Day:      “Though a man has a new birth at every new phase of his life it is inevitable, if the abandoned phase has been good, that he should mourn it as a dead friend.”   — … Continue reading

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