Men in skirts

| April 4, 2004

Ith, who brings us Absinthe & Cookies, is masterminding a Gathering of the Blogs for Tartan Day: Go over to Ith’s and let her know you want to participate. Now, my family heritage may not be terribly Scottish. Or not Scottish at all — the ancestry on my Dad’s side traces back to Thomas Tupper, […]

Happy Birthday, Dad

| March 24, 2004

Dad was born into the Great Depression, lost his father when he was only three years old, and grew up in poverty, in what passed for slums in the San Francisco of the ’40s and ’50s. What kind of chance could he have to succeed in life? He went to college due to athletics – […]