ICE CREAM

 

Thursday, December the 18th, 2023.

Today is my mother's birthday and she's also in heaven. Her name was Carol because she came home on Christmas Day. Those were the days when you could stay 7 Days in the hospital.

very early I learned she wanted me to be fearless. she told me that I was to face up to bullies and that if they beat me up, it would be okay, because she would give me a bowl of ice cream. 

by the time I graduated from high school at Gary Emerson my reputation as a bully fighter was set in stone and went and proceeded me wherever I went. in high school I lost my teeth. I had also by then been thrown out of an eighth grade class because I wouldn't let Norman Kaplan bully Tina which he did when she got one mistake on her perfect papers. I also faced up to a huge black boy from the west side of Gary because he was picking on my little brother and all of that training made me stand up to him in front of the entire choir. 

I would not recommend the very same route for boys and girls today. I would instead recommend either getting martial arts training like I did with my oldest daughter or learn to stay close to the authorities and always turn in the idiots. in fact my teeth are almost all gone because of this and that's why I rarely smile. but that Stone face hides a happy heart because God has given me the desires of my heart including a lot of wonderful friends like you. later Gators.