Marge and I being married in 1960
Marge’s 1961 birthday photo
Marge's 1961 birthday photo
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Category Archives: Relationships
Holiday Season 1978
Memories from past letters of mine. Also commentary now on those memories. We are now into the fall of 1978. The cold and cough season is upon us but nothing serious. I receive the official notification that I am now a Professional Engineer in PA, a goal that I worked on for a year. I was proud of this achievement. I was also proud of getting the truck ready for use as a tow vehicle. I now realized that I included much about Margery. I make what amends that I can here. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged coopersburg, Marge, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L
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Summer’s End 1978
Marge and I in 1978 were a middle age suburban Pennsylvania couple with two growing children. This post is about summer ending, a week at the beach, minutae of everyday life, hobbies, memories of the past and comments on them in the present. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, family, friends, memoir, relationships
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My 2019 Christmas Novella
Personal comments and photos about my life here in Las Vegas, NV during 2019; featuring daughters Ingrid and Louise, friends Janet, Dee, and Odile. It was a good year with one minor bump in October when I became ill. The color for the Advent season is blue, signifying hope. I hope you also have had a great 2020 year and look to the future hopefully. Continue reading
Posted in Hospital, ER, drugs, Las Vegas, photos, Relationships, Vegas 2010-2020
Tagged family, friends, life, love, memoir, relationships
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July 1978
Summer vacation time in PA. Trips for me, mostly business related. I had a speaking engagement in Chicago and made a side trip to Dearborn, home of many museums and similar places of interest. I took a trip at Memorial day to Tampa to spend a few days there with a friend and so some sailing in the Gulf. That was a lot of fun. I went to Poughkeepsie, NY to visit a counterpart at Central Hudson Power. Marge and I both went to Williamsburgh, VA as I was going to a trade show of electric utility vehicles. Marge did some shopping and sightseeing. We left the girls at home and had a very nice time together. Pleasure with business, a good combination. I had a new eye exam and also a detailed hearing exam. Some minor problems but nothing serious. I took up the jogging craze and find it is a good way to unwind after a day at the office and get in good physical shape. I took the exam for a Professional Engineering license 20 years after graduation. It was exhausting but I believe I did OK. Future summer plans involve going to Virginia Beach with another couple for a vacation which we are all looking forward to. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, friends, memoir, singing, vacation
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Marriage Encounter
Marriage Encounter, an ongoing Catholic program for couples to enhance their relationship through improved dialog. This is our experience. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged dialog, family, feelings, love, Religion
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A Tale of Two Obituaries
Life and death, sex and solitude, remembrance, log cabin, childhood memories, small towns, reconnecting Continue reading
Posted in Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged death, family, feelings, friends, life, photos, restaurants, sex
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Summer Solstice Soliloquies
family life in 1976, photos, Dad’s death,Lake Placid, summer vacations, ham radio, ages and stages Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged death, driving, friends, Ingrid, memoir, photos, road travel, summer
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April Fools – 1975
Travel trailer vacation, Florida, Disney world, Weekie Watchie, St Augustine North Carolina,bad weather, home again Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged children, driving, family, feelings, fun, history, life, vacation
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Jan 1975, national economy, holidays, travel plans, new and old hobbies
A new year is upon us. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem better than last year. For us as a family the situation appears OK. Nationally is a different matter. One month we hear of a tax surcharge, than a tax rebate. … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Relationships
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, emotions, Marge, marriage, memoir, PP&L, singing
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Summer Time – 1973
The Date: August 15, 1973. The Place: Coopersburg, PA. August here is usually hot and muggy, this day being no exception. Not like NY where we could get by with large window fans and we are so thankful this house … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged beach, Beverly Hills, family, history, life, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L, relationships, road travel
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R. F. & M. F. – End of Chapter
“MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK” Words and Lyrics Henry Clay Work “My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Relationships, Vegas 1980-1990, Vestal
Tagged clockwork, college, death, driving, emotions, grief, life, love, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, National Guard, Personality testing, relationships, road travel
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Mind Probing Marge and Bob – Sex
Sex!! where would we be without it? Of course, you wouldn’t be at all, unless you were conceived miraculously. Christianity, Buddhism, aboriginal beliefs, and other religious systems have similar tales, so that idea is part of our Jungian collective unconscious thereby explaining the mystery … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged emotions, fun, hot tubs, love, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, mood, relationships, sex, Spring Fever
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Mind Probing Bob & Marge – Personal Interests
Time. Time and time again. What is time? My dictionary first defines time as a noun : the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole; when used differently time is a verb, … Continue reading
Posted in Marge Writing, Marital difficulties, Relationships, Syracuse University
Tagged emotions, friends, hobbies, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, music, New York, relationships, SAT, singing, Syracuse University, time, work
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Mind Probing Bob & Marge – Stress
November 9, 2015, 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Seems a good time to write on stress. Kristallnacht unknown.? Google it. Kristallnacht, a turning point in Nazi anti-Jewish policy culminating in the Holocaust–the systematic, state-sponsored extermination of the European Jews. A terrible day not to be forgotten. Imagine yourself there, synagogues burning, … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Relationships
Tagged adjustment disorder, alcohol, anger, coping, depression, doctors, DSM, emotional stress, emotions, health, Marge, marital disorder, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, psychiatry, relationships
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MIND PROBING Bob & Marge – Relationships
In a funk this morning. Waking early sometime in the night. Very dark. Very Thirsty, probably mouth breathing. Then staggering to my bathroom for cold water. Up about 5:30 a.m. due to Mochoa cat. Meow, meow , meow – Paw, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged emotions, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, relationships, Scesis, Scesis Onomaton
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WASP (Not the Insect)
The emotional rush of being in love and a couple, both figuratively and physically, ended about when the relationship texts proclaimed, that is, about 2 years after making our informal commitment to each other. Sure enough, we responded to the ancient call … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged baby, clothes, coopersburg, emotions, friends, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, PA Power and Light, Pennsylvania, PP&L, relationships
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1970 – Pennsylvania
We have now moved down here and into the house on Beverley Hills. It was heart-rending to leave Vestal as we had made several improvements to the house to personalize it into being our home. Originally, we had planned on staying in … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Relationships
Tagged alone, Beverly Hills, emotions, loneliness, loss, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, moving, personality
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For Marge
At one time in the past, we used to subscribe to the local paper, the LV Review Journal. The paper had a weekly column by Stephen Kalas. Marge saved one of his columns, which I found and used as the preface … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged emotions, Marge, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, poetry, relationships
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Parting Words-May 1958
In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet speaks the following famous words “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Of course, since we know the play, things do not turn out as she expected for either of them. May was the last month … Continue reading
Posted in Pre Marriage life, Relationships, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged college, dating in 1950s, emotions, Love letter, Marge, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, relationships, romance
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Wilson Cottage – Syracuse University
I have rambled about myself with little concerning Marge. Now I try to remedy that as best I can. This is a copy of the cover letter Marge sent me after, what I thought, was a disastrous first real date, the disaster due … Continue reading
Posted in Pre Marriage life, Relationships, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Brae Loch Inn, Cazenovia, clothes, college, dating in 1950s, emotions, Marge, memoir, New York, Pigeons, relationships, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Fish Tales
Most of us have seen a photo of the earth taken from a satellite, or space ship of some type. The earth, from this vantage, appears as a blue globe against a black field of darkness. Water covers eighty percent … Continue reading
Posted in Dannemora, NY, Relationships
Tagged Clinton Prison, coopersburg, Dannemora, depression, emotions, fishing, friends, ice fishing, Lake Champlain, memoir, misunderstanding, New York, relationships
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Flee Flu
An old gag goes like this “I opened the door… and in flew Enza.” In 1957 an influenza pandemic struck. It flew in with a vengeance. A description follows from the web site WWW.Flu.gov. “In February 1957, a new flu … Continue reading
Infirmary Blues (?) Syracuse Style
Have you heard of the S.U. Infirmary? Recapping a bit, Roy and I roomed together at Watson in years 54-55. I lived in G. Cleveland 55-56 and Roy took a year off. We roomed again in G. Cleveland 56-57. We lived in … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged college, Dannemora, friends, memoir, New York, rrlationships, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Self Reflection
Following is a highly abridged article by Steve Kalas, from the LV Review Journal. – “Couplehood provides the missing pieces and psychic injuries we sustain in our upbringing. Our parents are imperfect and we bring with us into any relationship … Continue reading
55 Years Together 