Sep 8 1963
Starting about sixth-grade I began a life-long project to figure it all out. The project went through many phases. I began with the question of god. Sometime when I was 16 the remember laying on my back in bed and realizing if the became an atheist I would never look back. For me it was […]
Feb 16 1963
Both my grandfathers used pocket watches. From about seventh grade through high school I too carried a pocket watch. I preferred baby bend watches that went for about three or four dollars and were sold at checkout counters. The baby bens kept poor time–off three to five minutes a day. They also broke often. Nonetheless […]
Sep 22 1962
In junior high I worked a janitor at Foster’s Freeze. I also had paper routes for the Lodi News Sentinel and the Stockton Record. In high school I was janitor for Ward’s. The summer of 1965 I was a farm worker working a crew run by my Mexican neighbor woman. From 1966 through 1970 I […]
Sep 22 1961
Lived on Sunset through junior and senior high school. Came home here for summer the first three years of college.
Jan 12 1961
In junior high I joined the Lodi boy scouts. The troop had little to do with merit badges and marching was all about camping and games. Meetings at the armory started with red-rover and dodge ball games. Then the next camping trip was planned. In the summer and over weekends we went up to Silver […]
Nov 28 1959
About when I was ten, on a winter week-end trip to Old Man’s Cave park, my mother fell over a cliff. She landed on her locked leg which broke through the hipbone socket. She was in a hospital bed at home for several weeks, her leg in traction.
Nov 22 1958
In early elementary school I planned to join the army and become a general. By sixth grade I though I would become an engineer. I was impressed with my uncle’s stories of doing human factor engineering during WWII. In 7th grade I outlined my life plans year by year. The only thing I remember is […]
Jul 27 1957
Throughout my childhood vacations and holidays involved my cousins on my mother’s side. We would often meet in Circleville Ohio from weekend picnics. Dave George was the oldest, and I thought, the coolest. Greg George was the closest in age and sex to me Janet George, as a girl, I did not well relate to. […]
Jun 8 1957
When I was 8 years old our family drove route 66 from Lancaster Ohio to LA to visit my grandparents and aunts, uncles and cousins. We spent $10 a night on cheap motels, had breakfast at local camp grounds. We stopped at national parks. In LA we visited Knox Berry Farm and Disney Land.
Mar 29 1965
Atheism
When I was 16, lying on my back in bed, I realized that if I decided I was an atheist I would never go back. Atheism seemed natural and obvious to me. God a willed belief. I never went back, I never doubted this conclusion.
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