Sunday, December 21, 2008
Today my beloved spouse celebrates a birthday. To commemorate this event on-line, I offer a Spirograph flower I drew in 1968. Did you know that Spirograph patterns are hypotrochoids and epitrochoids?
Friday, November 28, 2008
Here’s another pair of ‘then and now’ images. Above, Alexis and I come to you from 1978. She is 16 and I’m 19. Below you see us thirty years later. We’re happy together.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Gerald F. Pearce was one of the two grandfathers I never met. He was in WWI, but not in the European trenches. Instead, Gerald Senior was in the Middle East. 90 years ago today, the Great War ended. My grandfather was in Baghdad, Iraq. Here’s what the main drag looked like on November 11, 1918:
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Friday, September 5, 2008
My dad was born 80 years ago today. Here is the proof. Sadly, he did not live to see his 75th birthday.
Here’s the first picture of my parents as husband and wife, taken June 18, 1953.
And here is the last picture, taken on November 28, 2002.
My mom was born on this day in 1930. Here is the proof.
I met my maternal grandmother once. Here is Wilhemena Reaume with her daughter Joan and her grandson Scott. My grandfather, Robert J. DeLap, deserted the family in 1930, shortly after my mom was born. Wilhemena abandoned her daughter to be raised by her dad’s parents. Mother and daughter were reunited for a few hours one [...]
Here is the eulogy I gave at the memorial service for my uncle on Saturday, May 3, 2008.
Eulogy for Dick Pearce:
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My uncle’s funeral is being held in Fallbrook, California at this hour. Here is a picture of us together early in January, 1970. It was taken at Willow Springs Raceway.
Today is the fifth anniversary of my dad’s death.
This is one of the best images to come out of the family archives. It was taken in 1957, about a year before I was born. It is one of the very few color photographs my mom took before the late 1960’s.
Joan Pearce died three years ago today. Here is a picture of her that my dad took in May 1981 at the Renaissance Faire in Agoura, California.
Friday, September 14, 2007
When I was trained to be a pool lifeguard, I was warned about middle-aged swimmers who had been competitive athletes and/or lifeguards. “Those guys think they are stronger than they really are.”
The waters off Kauai are fantastic. They’re warm and inviting. For months, Alexis and I told the kids all about the bright fish you [...]
