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A Two-Year Old Confronts Her Granparents at Her Bedtime
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Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Some musings on that favorite song from Simon and Garfunkel.
A Two-Year Old Confronts Her Granparents at Her Bedtime
A short story. Opa (Scott), Oma (Sue) and granddaughter (Eleanor) figure out how to perform with each other.
My Name
How a Purdue University athletic tragedy gave me my name.
Homage to the Simple Zipper
Unsolicited advice for hikers and backpackers alike. A bit of whimsy.
Bears in Boulder
See photos!
The Joy of Ranting
Four oldies but goodies.
Certified Nose
Yet another skill to pad your resume …
Ending a Cellphone conversation
A few short observations on this daily ritual.
My obituary
SPOILER ALERT: I am not dead. I do not have some terminal illness. I feel just fine today, thank you very much.
Recently I wrote an obiturary for my old friend Dan. As a proctice run, I wrote this one for myself.
smallman.com
What is up with “smalllman.com”? Here is a short story behind those eight letters, “smallman”. Back in 1950 when I was born my parents, especially my mother, was certain I would be a girl. After all, Bruce and Paul were due for a little sister and not another boy in the family. A list of names for girls was at the ready when Nancy went to the hospital. But, things turned out differently and there was a scramble for appropriate names. The quick solution was to reverse my fathers first and middle names and – voila – Scott Marshall Allman had a name. Shorten the first and middle names to just initials and the result is S. M. Allman.