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Tag Archives: Marge
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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Vacation Over
Summer is over now. Marge and the girls have come back from their long visit in the Tampa, Florida area. We did go to the Jersey shore for a week and discovered a very small, very loud Florida frog in the trailer. Marge located him and took him outside and he is now on his own. Some car problems with our 1970 Ford station wagon, house and home projects; the miscellany of life in suburbia. I am looking forward to some business trips and school for the girls will soon begin. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, family, Marge, PP&L, road travel
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January 1978
Marge and I work together on some home improvements in our kitchen. We also joined the church choir; another activity we both enjoy and pleasant together. I went to two utility conferences speaking at one of them. We were plagued by ice storms in the fall but managed to cope with the power outages. Indoor camping one might say. My Mom visited us from her home in Plattsburgh NY which we all enjoyed. The fall season visits us with the flu, though not too seriously. We look forward to the coming year including a trip to Georgia during Easter vacation time. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, Marge, PP&L
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May 1977
The sunny South, land of Tara and “Gone with the Wind”. Also, Live Oaks and Spanish moss. Our annual Spring vacation where we went to get a head start on spring in PA. The Civil War, aka War of Northern Aggression, started here. View a Park Service video of Fort Sumter history. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Summer vacations
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, fun, Marge, vacation
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Winter Wonders 1976
41 years ago, Thanksgiving and Christmas, trips, work, hobbies, cars and familys memories Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged cars, children, coopersburg, Dannemora, driving, Marge, misunderstanding, road travel, singing
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Presidents Day ’76
February, the confusing Washington’s birthday holiday, MLK, race riots, car repair, health, vacation plans Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged Beverly Hills, cars, emotions, health, Marge, misunderstanding, PP&L, relationships
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March 1975, Health, Teen Age, Music, Spring
March 1975 in Coopersburg, health, birthday, guitars, woodworking, films Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, featured, films, Marge, memoir, music
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Feb. 1975, Flu, Florida, Family, Guitar, Electronics, Furniture
Mid winter in PA, Flu, Florida, Trailer travel, Guitar, Electronics,Furniture Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, friends, health, Marge, memoir, music, PP&L, road travel
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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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July 1974- union strikes, major flood, trailer camping
Summer ’74 is definitely with us now, and for me an unusual experience, working as a helper on a line crew. A line crew installs and maintains the wiring from the electrical distribution system to the last customer. Was this … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged Beverly Hills, children, dining, emotions, featured, Marge, memoir, misunderstanding, PP&L, Storms, trailer travel
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Easter Vacation 1974
I think that a slight change in style is proper. My sources, other than memories, are letters and notes from the time period in the blog title. I am trying to correctly represent that by writing in the past tense … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged coopersburg, dining, driving, health, Marge, marriage, memoir, Moravian church, travel trailer
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Marching Along – 1974
Spring is springing, a young man’s thoughts turn to Love, and a middle-aged man thinks about his trailer. March 74 certainly came in very lamb-like. I was sick again in February with the flu, more severe in February than January. … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, cars, clothes, driving, friends, health, Marge, memoir, PP&L, road travel
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Independence Day – 1973
I had the day off since 4th is a holiday. Louise’s birthday is the 6th so we all celebrated a day early. Seven years old already, how did that happen? Of course, we had birthday cake and presents and altogether … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, coopersburg, life, love, Marge, memoir, New York, PP&L, relationships, vacation
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Springtime For Frantzens – 1973
No, not Springtime For Hitler, that’s been done, but about me and my loved ones. I took a business trip to Oklahoma at the end of April. A local vendor of construction equipment was having a show in Oklahoma City and I … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA
Tagged coopersburg, dining, emotions, family planning, friends, hospital, Hydro electricity, mall, Marge, memoir, PP&L, Susquehanna, Trailers, tubal ligation
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Great Expectations – Our First Trailer Trip
I am shameless in appropriating titles, though we did in fact have great expectations for our first trailer vacation. The time was April 1973 just preceding Easter of that year. We made a trial trip to Lancaster PA to get an actual … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged Atlantic coast, coopersburg, driving, emotions, Marge, memoir, Myrtle Beach, road travel, trailer
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On The Road…In PA
Apologies to Jack Kerouac but I couldn’t resist. Marge and I have discussed buying a travel trailer. Really, it was my idea but of course it was a joint decision to make. I have no idea why, it just seemed … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged emotions, life, Marge, marriage, memoir, 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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Ages and Stages-Chapter 1
I have finally come to that point of thinking I have something to share again. And as I often do, I begin with a snippet that resonates with me and my story. This one is from the singer Glen Campbell. If … Continue reading
Posted in Dannemora, NY, Pre Marriage life, Syracuse University
Tagged Adirondack Mts., Dannemora, dating in 1950s, emotions, friends, graduation, Marge, memoir, New York, Syracuse University
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Cars And Carpentry
What has the post title got to do with Marge, Bob or us? In a way, an automobile is a tool. Its main purpose is to give us personal mobility. We don’t have to rely on foot power, real equine … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged 1966 Cadillac, auto maintenance, Beverly Hills, cabinetmaking, Carpentry, coopersburg, driving, Marge, marriage, memoir, printing.1957 Cadillac, Rambler, tools
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Winter Wonderland on Beverly Hills
“It wonders me.” So said the Dutchman. The link “Dutchman News” will take you to news and Dutch recipes, but no Dutch uncles. This is also a WordPress site and will open in a new window. Click it, try it, … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, Joseph Mitchell, Marge, Pennsylvania, TV antenna, VHF-UHF
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Bride – Child
Horses are beautiful animals. How useful they were to the human race for travel, farming, hunting, making war, racing, etc. As a boy, I remember them still being used as work animals, primarily for plowing, harrowing and otherwise tending to … Continue reading
Posted in Binghamton, Marge Writing, Marital difficulties, NY, Syracuse, Syracuse University, US Air Force, Vestal
Tagged abandonment, Air Force, anger, baby, emotions, grief, Marge, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, moving, New York, pregnancy, rejection, students, Syracuse University
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Thoughts For Food
One need common to all is to eat. I awoke early this morning and found myself remembering long past eating experiences. This post is are about eating when we were attending Syracuse U. Back then, there was a little Italian restaurant on Genesee … Continue reading
Posted in Pre Marriage life, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged bats, dating in 1950s, dining, eating, Marge, memoir, Ogden Nash, restaurants, Special of the Day, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Inside Margery Sutherland
“All happy families are alike – Every unhappy family if unhappy in its own way.” Wish I had thought of that but Tolstoy said it first. I believe our life together was sometimes one way, sometimes the other, and often … Continue reading
Posted in Pre Marriage life, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged abandonment, alone, anger, betrayal, depression, distrust, emotional pain, emotional stress, fear, hopelessness, insecurity, intelligence, manipulated, Marge, rejection, sadness, stress, vulnerable, withdrawal
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Bob’s Youthful Memories
I know you have seen the prologue to this site since I started it. Please take another read as the subject is a topic that I am trying to come to grips with myself. In this post I will do … Continue reading
Posted in Pre Marriage life
Tagged Clinton Prison, confession, Dannemora, family values, grief recovery, journalling, Marge, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, New York, Ohio, parenting
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Marge’s Autobiography 1970-1980
I had not found a place to include some more of Marge’s autobiographical statements, and this seems a good place to pick up again. At the time this segment begins, we had moved to Coopersburg, PA to the Beverly hills home. She … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Marge Writing
Tagged Charismatic movement, coopersburg, job search, Marge, marriage, Marriage Encounter, marriage problems, memoir, singing
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Leaving Vestal
Have you ever had difficulty making a major decision? You know, such as “Is he/she the right one for me, or not?” “Should I buy this house/car/boat?” Probably most of you have at one time or another. I decision … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Vestal
Tagged job change, Marge, memoir, moving, Raquel Welch Poster
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Marge – Music and Religon
This blog is about both Marge and I, but to date most has been about our life from my perspective. I have quoted some of her letters and writing from the time we were dating, but nothing really from her … Continue reading
Vestal 1965-1966
We lived in Vestal from the summer of 63 until the fall of 69. Quite a few things happened then and I’ll do my best to remember them in sequence. in 1965 we were still members of the First … Continue reading
Back Home At Last!
Hancock Field, Syracuse, NY At last! official orders had been prepared and we in the 138th TACFRON came back to Syracuse in August of 1962. Of course, we were still on active duty until the end of the month but … Continue reading
55 Years Together 