My photographer’s alarm rang at 5:45am on Thursday August 1, 2024 and our Airbnb in Prairie Village, Kansas began to come to life shortly after. It was game day, and Tom’s grandson’s first game of the National All-State Championship tournament…
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307: MY DAY WITH RORY, HARRY S, AND THE ‘COUNTRY WEASEL’
It was a little over a one-mile drive from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum into downtown Independence where Tom found a parking place across the street from the Independence Courthouse Square. Although my photographer figured the historic…
306: MY PHOTOGRAPHER RECRUITED A NEW “PARTNER-IN-CRIME” AND THE TORCH WAS PASSED AT TRUMAN’S PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
When Tom’s alarm rang at 5:45am on Tuesday July 30, 2024 and he got ready to take on the day, I didn’t think we were in Kansas anymore. But we were – albeit we were only a quarter mile into…
304: THE TALE OF TWO BIRTHPLACES – FROM THE UNSINKABLE TO THE UNTHINKABLE
It was Sunday morning July 28, 2024 when Tom’s alarm went off at 6:00am in our Springfield, Illinois Ramada hotel room. As soon as my two companions got themselves ready and all of their belongings packed, they headed downstairs to…
274: OVER THE BRIDGE AND DOWN THE THUMB WHERE GARFIELD ONCE HAD FUN
Tom, Vicki, and I were 500 miles from home and still in the Central Time Zone when we reached the Michigan border at 12 noon on Thursday September 21, 2023. As soon as we arrived in Menominee, Michigan, which was…