Posts Tagged ‘Glen Dickason
Shopping for fruitcake, or, no, um,
shopping AND fruitcake, by guest blogger/columnist Glen Dickason
It’s that time of year – everyone celebrates the holidays with their time-honored family traditions.
One of our long-time traditions was shopping early. We used to start in the spring buying the special gifts, or the materials to make them. We laughed out loud [...]
Tucker left today
Frequent guest blogger Glen Dickason shares an emotion-filled account of the end of life for Tucker, which came early this morning.
Our cat died tonight.
More precisely – he died at 3:30 a.m. – about an hour and a half ago.
Tucker woke us up about 1 a.m., howling in pain. His back legs [...]
Vern would like us to know…
Several weeks ago, Union-Bulletin guest columnist Glen Dickason gave us a peek into the challenges surrounding trying to usher his parents into the world of technology.
Specifically, the TV remote. For everyone but Glen, the recounting of the experience offered a smile.
Not long afterward, I got a letter from Vern Shafer of College Place. Not only [...]
Excuse me, barge coming through!
Let me introduce Glen Dickason to my blog readers. Those of you who follow my newspaper column, “Home Place,” may remember Glen was a guest columnist for me two weeks ago. He talked about the ups and mostly downs of teaching his parents how to work a multitude of TV remote controls.
Reader Vern Shafer responded [...]
