I’ve been walking a lot lately. Some of that is out of necessity. Because of a recurring back injury, I’ve altered my workout routine. No more running or elliptical. No more lifting like I’m training for the Olympic trials. Combine that with a treadmill that needs to be repaired, and the current regime includes lifting […]
Long walks help ease the pain three years later Read More »
The old man was a workaholic. Days off were few and far between, and 16-hour shifts were the norm while we were growing up. By the time my brother and I woke up at 6 a.m. to get ready for school, he’d already been in his shop building stock for an hour-and-a-half. When we climbed
Webb: Trick-or-treating was just that for the old man Read More »
Hey, Dad. It’s been a little more than 10 weeks (72 days to be exact) since you passed. In some ways, that seems like a long time ago. In some ways, it seems like yesterday. Dan and I have spent virtually all the free time we have the past two weeks preparing for and working
Webb: Belts, wallets and a lasting legacy Read More »
As Dad and Mom began their crafting career in the late 1970s and early 1980s, money was almost always tight. That lasted for more than a decade before the business really began to take off in the early 1990s. I wasn’t aware just how tight the tight was until I interviewed the old man a
Webb: Of mice and motels Read More »
Tough. If there’s been one word used to describe my dad during the past few days and weeks, that would be it. As an 8-year-old, he overcame polio before the vaccine was invented. At a time when many of the children infected with the disease ended up with a handicap, Dad not only beat polio,
My speech honoring Dad at his service … Read More »
As a boy growing up in rural Missouri, I spent hundreds of hours hitting rocks from our driveway into an open field across the highway. I must have delivered the game-winning hit thousands of times in Game 7 of the World Series, usually a long home run to right field at Kauffman Stadium. I thought
Lasting memories: Royals and rocks Read More »
