KENNYWOOD’S OPEN AND THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE THUNDERBOLT

My extended family and I were recently at Kennywood Park for a school picnic, which made me think about my own Kennywood memories. When we Pittsburgh baby-boomers were children, there was nothing more exhilarating than the annual pilgrimage to Kennywood. Kennywood is an amusement park that goes back to the turn of the last century [...]

Grandparenting truly lives up to its billing!!!

My wife and I are visiting our daughter and son-in-law and our first grandchild, Gabriel Valenzuela. I know….I know. Everybody’s grandbabies are beautiful, but get a load of this smile! He remind me of Bronco Nagurski!!! Look that one up!
Oh, yeah, grandparenting doesn’t seem to have all the anxieties I had as a parent. We [...]

The Heart of the Matta

This blog is an attempt to do something I have wanted to do for a long time. WRITE!! But I’ve realized that I am more motivated if I write for an audience, real or imagined, as I am more of a storyteller than anything else. So, now that I have an imaginary audience (hopefully not [...]