Category: True Stories

I’m writing this post on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.  I was 6 years old when this happened.  I remember seeing footage of the event on television at my grandmother’s house.  I was young enough at the time that I assumed everything I saw was live.  I was also confused… Continue reading RFK Remembered

I have recently started receiving several scam calls on my cell phone.  Most recently, they left the following message in my voicemail: “Ignoring this will be an intentional second attempt to avoid initial appearance before a magistrate judge or a grand jury for a federal criminal offense.  Now this is the final attempt to reach… Continue reading Dealing with Scam Calls

In 1996, my family and I moved to a small town in middle Tennessee. I had been working in this new town for a couple of months before we were able to relocate the whole family to our new town.  I had been staying in a hotel while starting the new job.  On the day… Continue reading Moving to the Mountains

I have written several posts about my wife walking and talking in her sleep. Some of the more interesting things she has said like this had to do with times around when she had seizures. Nearly all these stories have taken place before our kids were born. They haven’t had the pleasure of being entertained by… Continue reading Bucket List

When my wife wakes me up in the middle of the night, it’s rarely for a good reason. One night she woke me up shouting “Feel of the wall!!”  I was sound asleep and wasn’t sure what she had said so when I asked she shouted again, “Feel of the wall!!” I assumed that she… Continue reading Feel of the Wall!

My wife has a reputation for doing and saying things in her sleep. This story took place in our first house. It was before our children were born. My wife has some nice cross-stitched pieces that she had done that were based on Norman Rockwell works. We had several of these hanging in our bedroom. … Continue reading Picture on the Wall

My wife doing something interesting while she was asleep has never been an every-night experience. But this story also takes place in our first apartment which we lived in for about a year. This particular night, we went to sleep as usual. She didn’t do or say anything special before I fell asleep. She didn’t… Continue reading Nightgown

My wife and I were still in that first apartment when I had my next encounter with her doing things in her sleep. She had a very nice pair of diamond earrings that someone in her family had given to her as a Christmas gift. She was very careful not to sleep in these earrings.… Continue reading Earrings

My wife and I had not been married that long until I found out that she would occasionally walk or talk in her sleep.  The very first time I remember her doing anything like this was when we were in our first apartment. She fell asleep before I did but we hadn’t been in bed… Continue reading The Blinds

When I was growing up, I slept in a twin bed. This is the same bed I talked about in a previous post where I talk about not being a sleepwalker. This bed had 4 slats under the boxed springs. One of these slats didn’t fit that well and would occasionally fall out when I… Continue reading Falling Slats