Monthly Archives: February 2008

I want to read more about Bass Reeves

Black Profiles in Courage, A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; 1996; William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, NY; 232 pages; 0-688-13097-6; 2/22-2/27 A grave injustice has been done to the people of color in this country. So many of their accomplishments have been minimized or miscredited or stolen by the majority. The [...]

Flashback Friday

Where are you now? Well ever since I got back from my walk this morning I have trying to put a picture in this post but no matter how I try to do it I can’t make it work.  Do you hear that Steve?  The picture is of my parents and Leonard and Ivy Crocker.  [...]

Thursday Trivia

I was entering todays mileage in my spreadsheet this morning when I remembered a conversation from the early 70′s.  It was after a track meet at the University of Oregons’ Hayward Field and I was hanging out with Steve McChesney.  We approached Frank Shorter, winner of the 1972 Olympic Decathlon, and asked him how far [...]

Wednesday Wanderings

Every morning (since Feb 10) I get up and wander over to Portland Christian High School and walk around their track.  Walking around the track multiple times gets your mind to wandering so I thought I would share those wanderings with you. It’s not hard to understand why oil is so important to this country [...]

Tuesday Tribute

Last night after I got done writing Monday Music I checked my email and there was an email from a friend with a link to LarryNorman.com. On that page it said that Larry Norman had passed away Sunday morning. I believe that if not for Larry Norman there would not be contemporary Christian music. Larry [...]

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