The first time I met my wife’s grandmother was long before I was married. I was at the ballpark in the town where I grew up. It was the summer after I graduated from high school and before my wife, Andrea and I had started dating each other. We were good friends so when I …
Category Archives: Printer’s Drawer
Printer’s Drawer – The Alamo
My mother-in-law moved to San Antonio, Texas a few years before my kids were born. My wife and I have made several trips there both before and after our children were born. Our first attempt at a trip was cut short when we were rear ended by a drunk driver in Little Rock, Arkansas just …
Printer’s Drawer – Vegas Dice
In October of 2003, I had an opportunity with work to go to a packaging show in Las Vegas. My wife’s birthday is in October, so I arranged to have her go with me as a birthday gift. At the writing of this post, this is the only time either of us has been to …
Printer’s Drawer – St. Louis Arch
Most people going on a vacation to St. Louis in the summer would include a trip to see the Cardinals play baseball. Before we had children, my wife and I decided to take a trip there. We decided to intentionally go on a week when the Cardinals were out of town. We felt this would …
Printer’s Drawer – Penny from Honeymoon
When my wife and I were planning our wedding back in 1985, she found an ad in the back of a bride magazine advertising a place with honeymoon cabins in the mountains of North Carolina. This was the place we decided to spend our honeymoon. The place was called Mountain Brook and they had a …
Printer’s Drawer – Meg and Hercules
Hercules is the first Disney movie we took our children to see. They were only 17 months apart in age and the first experience in a movie theater was an adventure. My son had a hard time sitting still for the whole movie, but it wasn’t a bad experience. This was the first Disney film that …
Printer’s Drawer – Elvis Furniture Knob
When I made my first trip to Elvis Week in 2002, I did several things to document the trip. I took a cassette tape recorder and a digital camera to document the trip. Today, I could do the same with my iPhone. But with the cassette recorder, I felt more official in documenting the trip. …
Printer’s Drawer – Twin Peaks Keychain
In my previous post, I shared a lot of information about my family and our fascination with the television show Twin Peaks. In the series, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper stays at a hotel call the Great Northern Hotel. His room number is 315. Many key scenes in the series take place in the hotel room …
Printer’s Drawer – Bookhouse Boy’s Patch
When the television series Twin Peaks originally aired, my wife and I were instant fans. Our interest in this David Lynch related series came about because we were fans of his film Eraserhead. We watched the first season and were hooked. We bought the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to read over the summer between the first and …
Printer’s Drawer – Joanne’s Charm
My son had his first birthday a few months after my family moved to Middle Tennessee. His sister was 3. We moved to a community where we didn’t know anyone. We started attending the Methodist church in town and soon made friends there. One of the ladies that the got to know from the first …