Bob and I used to play chess a lot, and he always beat me. That's probably why we stayed friends. That, and the fact that I taught Claudia how to drive. He asked me to teach her because--well, he just said it would be better if I did it.
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Bob and I used to play chess a lot, and he always beat me. That's probably why we stayed friends. That, and the fact that I taught Claudia how to drive. He asked me to teach her because--well, he just said it would be better if I did it. |
These are my
friends, Claudia and Bob. I met them when I was in graduate
school at Indiana University, 1967-'70. Here's a picture taken the
last time I saw him--with our sons Eric and Dylan, circa 1971. He
was much younger looking then. And so was I.
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Bob's now a retired professor at the University of Oklahoma, though he still teaches classes in Web design. I'm sure he'll take his red pencil to this work of mine. Claudia developed and teaches her dream class for high school students: "Reading for Pleasure." What a great idea! After 30+ years, we had a lot to talk about. We did not play chess.
I spent a couple of days with them, and on Monday, Bob drove me down to Ft. Sill where we visited Geronimo's grave and had Korean barbeque in Lawton, Oklahoma.
They live on the western edge of an area know as the Cross Timbers, a wide band of scraggy blackjack and post oak forest so thick and tough that early settlers detoured around it. I think a lot of it got burned during the Christmas-time fires down there.
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