Brushes with Fame

We've all had them.  We love to talk about them.  Sometimes we even get pictures to prove we met them.  I'm talking about brushes with fame, meeting the people who are in the news that we admire, or sometimes don't like but like to brag about that we saw.  We've had a few in our lifetimes.  He're are just a couple.  I'll add more later.

Years ago my daughter had an opportunity to do an internship for a class in Jr. High School.  She got to go to New York City and work with one of the editors of YM magazine.  While she was doing that my wife had made arrangements to go and visit WABC Radio and meet Sean Hannity.  We got more than we bargained for when we got there.  We met with his producer and he introduced us to Flipper (if you listened to his show years ago you'll remember her as his call screener), and we even got to sit in the studio while he was doing the show.  That was an experience we'll never forget.

Now here's something you may not know.  Rush Limbaugh also had his studio right next to Sean.  We got to go in and sit at Rush's chair behind the now famous "Golden EIB Microphone".   Yes, it really is gold plated!  We took some pictures to prove we were there.  What a thrill.  Karen continues to listen to him every day on his podcasts since she is working during the day.

We've met other people throughout the years including Sarah Evans and Donny Osmond, just to name a couple.  Unfortunately we didn't have a camera with us those days.

Halloween Memories

With Halloween almost upon us I couldn’t help but think of the fun times we’ve had over the years. Growing up I went trick or treating until I was about 15 or 16 only because we didn’t want to grow up just yet. But then I discovered how much fun it was to try and scare the kids as they came up to our house. One year I set up a life size dummy corpse on our front porch. Another year I dressed up as a scarecrow and sat on the porch like I was a stuffed scarecrow with the bowl of candy on my lap. When the kids in costume came up I would suddenly come to life and hand them the candy. I scared some of them but not all.

When I grew up and had a daughter I made a costume for her that I thought was pretty cool. OK, so I’m her Dad and most dads don’t sew. I didn’t think this one would be too hard. It was a Crayon costume.

Tara chose pink. It came out very nice. She liked it and we kept it for years until finally deciding to give it away.

 We went to her cousins house and he dressed up like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. Then we took them through the neighborhoods and they got lots of candy which we then rationed out to them over the next several weeks.  We only took the candy that we knew they wouldn't like for ourselves.  Hey, maybe we don't dress up anymore but we still like the candy.  I no longer dress up for Halloween but I still have a lot of good memories of that holiday.   It's almost more phone giving out the candy and seeing all the other costumes anyway.

It’s too bad some people want to try and take that away from our kids though.

 She had a host of other costumes through the years but these were some of my favorites.