Marge and I being married in 1960
Marge’s 1961 birthday photo
Marge's 1961 birthday photo
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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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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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April 1974
March surely did go out like a lion this year. We had about an inch of snow on March 31, but it didn’t last long. The snow flakes were big and wet, came down hard for a few hours and … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, featured, marriage, memoir, road travel
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Another New Year – 1974
Here we are again, now in 1974. I didn’t get around to writing until the end of the month for some unknown reason now, probably the Christmas rush, celebrations, etc. One of our Christmas day rituals was turning the house … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, hobbies, life, love, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, relationships, road travel, taxes, trailer travel
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Notes on November -1973
November ’73, I am now a year older, but still under the figure of 40, another decade in the odometer of life. And so far it has been a good life. For us, this was a month of trips. The first gasoline crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, NY
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, emotions, friends, health, hobbies, life, love, marriage, memoir, PP&L, relationships, Trailers
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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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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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Orphanage of Marge
I want to reprise a bit from the earlier long quote about the Charismatic Movement. It does still exist in different forms, but I don’t believe here (LV). Marge had made some very bad decisions in our early life and was … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania
Tagged abandonment, anger, archetype, coopersburg, depression, emotions, friends, loneliness, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, orphan, Religion
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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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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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The Green, Green, Grass of Home
April 7, 1970 was another step forward in transforming our new house into a finished home. When we bought the house, the lawn work had never been completed, and we understood that. The excavated material left from digging the basement piled … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, featured, friends, grass, landscaping, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L, wedding anniversary, weeds
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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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It was the Best of Years, It was the Worst of years – Last Episode
Writing is an unnatural act, as Charles Darwin observed. It is so for me as it was for him. I remember living in Binghamton when Ingrid was 3 years old. We both enjoyed taking a stroll down Leroy street. One … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anger, dating in 1950s, emotions, marriage, memoir, personality
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It was the best of years, it was the worst of years – Episode 1
Whoa!! I think I am channeling Charles Dickens,what about that!! This not a tale of Two Cities though, it is a Tale of Two People. Specifically Margery and I. While this entire blog is about us, this post is not about … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged abandonment, anger, counselling, discouragement, emotions, feelings, marriage, memories, misunderstanding, Onondaga Park, rejection, sadness, Syracuse
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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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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
Till death do us part
We married in 1960. The service was conducted by the chaplain of the S.U. chapel and as I recall the ending of the marriage vows finished with the phrase which is the subject of this post. This is then followed by … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse University, Uncategorized
Tagged grief, grief recovery, marriage, memoir, mortality
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Sailing
Sailing Curious how just writing about the past brings up almost forgotten memories. While I was working at the Ozalid plant, I teamed up with a man whose name was Maurice Lee, “Morrie” for short, He was older than me … 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
Binghamton, New York
This is the duplex we rented when we moved to Binghamton. The photo is from Google Images and we lived in the house on the left. We lived in this house and the street next to us to us … Continue reading
Posted in Binghamton
Tagged Ansco, apartment, Binghamton University, GAF, Harpur College, marriage, memoir, SUNY
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333 Snowdale Drive
Our new home for a while is at 333 Snowdale Drive, Syracuse. This is actually in an area known as Seneca Knolls and the Seneca river is nearby. In 1962, State Fair Blvd. was the access road to Syracuse … Continue reading
Posted in Binghamton, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Crucible Steel, driving, marriage, memoir, moving, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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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
Surprise Visit
Surprise visit The large majority of the National Guardsmen called up to man our base were from the Boston area. They, like the Syracuse unit of the national guard, were equipped with F-86 fighters, which by 1962 were of Korean … Continue reading
Posted in Active Duty, US Air Force
Tagged Air Force, Air National Guard, baby, birth, driving, marriage, memoir
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Cold Warrior A1C Bob
The Berlin Recall was part of the Cold War. A war of words and national actions and reactions, but not shooting, at least for the US. I was a part of that, a very small part. I volunteered for the … Continue reading
Posted in Active Duty, US Air Force
Tagged Air Force, Air National Guard, Cornwall, France, friends, marriage, pregnancy
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New Dresses
We lived at the Smith Lane apartment through the winter. On quite cold weather, I would remove the battery from the car and take it inside. Then I would reinstall it before leaving in the morning. Just to be sure. … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged apartment, clothes, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Transitions and Traditions
As we get into the summer of 1960 we are slowly getting used to living together as a married couple. More complex than we imagined. Marge is getting more adept at cooking and we often go shopping together. The summer … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Crucible Steel, marriage, memoir, New York, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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The Honeymooners
A new decade is upon us.To Marge and I, the most significant event is our marriage in May. More on this later. Marge is in her second semester of her junior year. Next year she will not be a … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged apartment, clothes, Crucible Steel, dating in 1950s, friends, marriage, memoir, New York, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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55 Years Together 