Music and Stories from Art Wheeler
My youngest daughter Mary spent the last year in graduate school at the University of Kentucky. My wife and I went with her on an apartment hunting trip a year ago. We were able to find a reasonably priced apartment that wasn’t far from campus. The apartment complex was gated which gave us a sense …
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Things were changing in the summer 2019. Our youngest daughter was entering her last year of college. Our oldest daughter had been out of the house for about a year. We were beginning to feel like empty nesters. My wife asked me what I thought about downsizing. We had been in our house since 2006 …
On February 28, 1983, one of the greatest television series came to an end. M*A*S*H had become one of the biggest comedy series ever. The last episode was a big deal. I was in college at the time and the last episode of a show like this was a good excuse for fraternities to have parties. Every …
I went to school with a quiet guy named David. David was a quiet guy that I never got to know that well. He was just someone that was there. He didn’t seem to have many friends. And he wasn’t involved in many activities. He seemed to be of average intelligence. Not too smart, not …
Years ago, we had a large group of friends who decided to go to Benihanas for New Year’s Eve. Three couples from Jackson, TN were meeting three more couples from Memphis at the Benihana in Memphis. We had enough people to fill a Hibachi table to capacity. They had a special New Year’s Eve meal …
When I was in college, my friends and I would often make late night runs to restaurants that were opened all night. One night my friend Mark suggested we go to a place called GG’s. It was a locally owned diner in a building that was previously a Sambo’s chain restaurant. The Sambo’s had closed …
I never had a girlfriend in high school. Dates never turned into relationships. It was a rare occasion when I went out with a girl more than once. I have a cousin who would occasionally set me up on blind dates. We would double date on these occasions to try and make things go well. …
I was about 4 or 5 years old. I was in Sunday School class with about 10 guys all around my age. One of the guys was named Ricky. Ricky’s mom taught our class. Occasionally we would sing. One song we would sing was Jesus Loves the Little Children. The lyrics were, Jesus loves the little …
Last weekend, my oldest daughter was visiting us. My wife was telling her about the things she had coming up this week. My wife mentioned that she would be taking her father to see a Dr Bada on Tuesday. My daughter said she wondered if that was Donald’s father. My daughter had gone to high …
The use of services like Zoom and Teams has greatly increased with the pandemic. I had never heard of Zoom before the pandemic and Teams was a tool that we had only started playing around with at work. These programs allow you to do group video calls. You can also share what you are working …