Category Archives: Family

What’s the Point?

Posted on 27/11/2013 by Bobo

Last year (2012) I decided to make little wooden boxes for my kids, and grand kids.  The idea came to me as I listened to “The Littlest Angel,” by Bing Crosby about 2 weeks before Christmas.  That Christmas carol has … Continue reading →

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Christmas in 1962…

Posted on 24/11/2013 by Bobo

It was a bleak, cold, dreary Christmas at Chambley AFB, France in 1962.  Chambley is in Northern France, in the Alsace-Lorraine district, just south of the German border.  Dear Old Dad was stationed there as part of the NATO/Air Force … Continue reading →

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Sending Dear Ole Dad Downtown

Posted on 05/10/2013 by Bobo

There was NO WAY I could ‘take on’ Dear Ole Dad when I was a senior in high school.  He was just too big and too mean and too nasty.  And by that time I had taken so many poundings … Continue reading →

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My Two Beautiful Grand Daughters

Posted on 02/10/2013 by Bobo

Last Sunday (29/09/2013) I flew out to Colorado to visit with my grand daughters; Delaney (14) and Riley (13).  Riley was having her last volleyball game on Monday, and I wanted to see her play. I asked Dana to keep … Continue reading →

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A Celebration of Life

Posted on 25/09/2013 by Bobo

Last weekend I flew out to Oregon for a ‘Celebration of Life’ for my Aunt Jan.  Aunt Jan passed last month.  She was the last of my mom’s sisters.  Out of all my mom’s brothers and sisters there is only … Continue reading →

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An Old Goat, or A Nazi?

Posted on 25/08/2013 by Bobo

We lived in Chicopee Falls, MA from 1960 to Oct. 1962.  The house was the first house my folks owned.  My bedroom was in the basement, and that was okay with me – it gave me a bit of an … Continue reading →

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Lecture 43

Posted on 08/08/2013 by Bobo

When I was in college I used to hang out at Jim Gamble’s house.  Often Jim wasn’t there, but that didn’t matter – I loved his folks, Virginia and Carl. When I first met the Gambles in 1964 or so, … Continue reading →

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Watching Dear Ole Dad Solo…

Posted on 13/07/2013 by Bobo

I remember watching my dad “solo” at Kadena, Okinawa.  This, in itself, isn’t all that big of a deal – except Dear Ole Dad was a Commissary Officer. The houses at Kadena, were made of cinder block.   In those … Continue reading →

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Churchkeys, and Pull Tops

Posted on 07/07/2013 by Bobo

We lived on Floridastrasse in Wiesbaden (’63-’64).  Dear Ole Dad was the Commissary Officer at the time.  In this capacity he had the “inside track” to all the new foodstuffs and so forth. One day someone brought a case of … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day

Posted on 12/05/2013 by Bobo

Taking Mom Out Back Bobby Holliker 27 October 2008 Today I am taking Mom out back.  It’s time now…  Up until now, I have resisted, not wanting to ‘let her go.’  But today, it’s time. For the past 6 years … Continue reading →

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