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    Peachy Peach

    Thursday, November 8th, 2007

    At the behest of my family, I’ll try to recount the incident known as “Peachy Peach.” Three weeks after returning home from serving a mission for the Church I moved back to Provo to attend Brigham Young University. Yang, Nessa, and I stayed at a joint called Lookout Pointe. Since we were all poor, we [...]

    Brown Paper packages…

    Friday, October 19th, 2007

    One of my favorite things yang and I did growing up was choreographing dances to different songs.  When we were younger we’d make up a dance or a play and then immediately bother the beegeezes out of Mamma until she sat down and watched us.  When we were older we made up a dance to [...]

    ‘76 Monarchs and Charging Rams

    Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

    When I was in fourth and fifth grade I was attending one of Gladewater’s elementary schools. Vanessa was going to the middle school, Glen and Yang both were in high school, and our modes of transportation were a powder blue Mercury Monarch and a Dodge Ram Charger. [...]

    a tree grows in east mountain

    Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

    My family grew up in the woods of East Texas in a small community called East Mountain. We loved climbing pine trees and playing games in them. We each claimed a tree as ours and would climb as high as we could. For some reason, the pine trees weren’t much of a challenge. They had plenty [...]