Posted Poetry and Stories

My poetry Web site is poetrypoem.com/dandy and storypen.com/dandy. I have a bio on it pretty well upgraded. Those that knew me in high school writing poetry would be a shock. A two year associated degree at Highline College I have spent enough time in college for a four year degree. Never with the goal of graduating. That I spent two years at Central Washington College this would lose a lot of bets by my friends. I drifted through high school mostly skipping classes. I was only there to play sports. I spent the summer trying to memorize 5oo lines of poetry so Franklin High would give me a degree.

I am not even sure how I pulled this off. Central Washington offered me a basketball scholarship. Always I was playing at least one sport. I was advertized as one of Central's top three freshman recruits. Freshman did not play varsity. Intermural league I lead in scoring we twentythree points a game. On the games we played prior to the varsity games we were unbeaten. Against the Western Washinton freshman in the playoffs I had my worst game. Six points and we were out of the playoffs. Sophomore year my foot was infected. Running on the heals I was out for the season. But at Central I met the love of life. This year we were married fortyeight years. We both say somewhere there had to be two happy ones.

Sharon is a local girl too. Sharon Linde graudated from Mt Rainier but two of her sisters graduated from Highline. Our home is in Des Moines and two houses down from where she grew up. Two children. five Grandchildren. My son graduated from Wazzu undergraduate and Georgetown Law school. He is a Senior partner at Lane Powell. My Daughter a lead at a large Real Estate firm selling commercial property. My eldest Granddaughter this year graduated from the University of Washington on the Deans list. Did not get her brains from me. Grandson starts Eastern Washington. My youngest Granddaughter has just returned from a visit to Stanford, Berkley choosing the college of her choice. Like I say they did not get their brains from me. Oldest Grandson is an allstar in three sports. Point guard in basketball. Quarterback and leading rusher in football. 9 completed passes 11 attemps three for touchdowns. He last was a little league and pony league allstar playing all nine positions and batting over .500. Younger boy is center forward on his hockey team. Plays the piano and in the second grade announced his goal is to be President of the United States. Trust me we need him.