by Michael Adams | Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Besides that Padres baseball game, our Dad took us to see a San Diego State University football game on another occasion. Don Coryell was in his last year as the head coach there before stepping up to coach the Chargers. His assistant coach at State was Joe...
by Michael Adams | Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Moon Song Kevin’s mom and dad were the prototypical Leave It To Beaver types. Mr. Ferring was a natty dressy who kept his office tie on until after dinner and like Ward Cleaver, never lost his temper or raised his hands to the kids. He’d say, “Now Kevin….”...
by Michael Adams | Oct 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Now that we were skilled trappers and could collect any number of species in a given week, the question was what to do with them. It came to me while on a school field trip to the San Diego Zoo. It was my first visit to a zoo. It was amazing to see the array of...
by Michael Adams | Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
In San Carlos, everybody had a ride. You weren’t a cowboy without a horse, or cool without a bike. To remedy that, Joe and I decided we would get a job. We became newspaper delivery boys. At first, Ma woke us and escorted us to the newspaper truck...
by Michael Adams | Sep 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Secret Agents Spying was both real and romanticized in the news, the movies, in songs and on television. Our country was in the middle of the Cold War, an arms race and a space race with Russia. We had one thing in common with the Russians, a little shared...
