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1989

5 entries

  1. Sunday, January 1, 1989 · Don Krumpos

    I was fifteen when I said something embarrassingly earnest:

    I was fifteen when I said something embarrassingly earnest: “If you put your mind to it, you can do anything.” My dad and a family friend shut it down immediately. “You’ll never be a pro basketball player.” “That’s not how…

  2. Sunday, January 1, 1989 · Don Krumpos

    The Beast

    Cars were one of the ways my father measured time. Not deliberately. He was not sentimental about them in any obvious way. A vehicle was a tool first: something to get to work, haul lumber, carry children, survive winter, and…

  3. Monday, January 2, 1989

    Monday, January 2, 1989

    Wow! 1989 — impossible! Donny is 14 going to be 15 this year and Helen is going to be a teenager. Where do the years go? Christmas was nice. We went to church Christmas Eve then to Dad's. He enjoys…

  4. Tuesday, January 3, 1989

    Tuesday, January 3, 1989

    Today I finished taking down the Christmas tree. In on way it was good getting everything put away, but there's always a little sadness with it too. It symbolizes another year coming to and end. — A lot of good…

  5. Monday, August 28, 1989 · Don Krumpos

    Catfish Fishing

    Today Jimmy and I found a glorious fishing hole out on Point au Sable. We first found it by rafting down Wequiock Creek this spring when the water was high, but it is much easier to get to by the…