Overview

It had been my hope to eventually copy all of my diaries, going back to January 22, 1966 into this medium. Unfortunately, all but one journal (1978) were destroyed. So we are stuck with my memories as needed and the events of the day. This format places the most recent entry first, so the reader will again have to deal with my "non-temporal " writing style. I have been maligned by some for writing various stories in an "out of order" manner. Perhaps that's how my literary mind works, or maybe just how the past presents itself to my consciousness. Another problem is my slow typing speed and sometimes low back pain which would have made placing over 30 years worth of daily diaries entries here anyway. No doubt that the reader would probably had balked at having to read page after page of how many eggs the chickens laid that day, the weather report, or crude sketches of the position of the Galilean moons of Jupiter as seen by a 10 year old with a telescope.
Junior high school, high school and college might have been more entertaining. That original series of diaries, which had gone down to weekly entries at best, ended on November 4, 1989, when my son was born.

Michelle says there is at least one other 1980's journal in her stuff at her mother's home in Greeley, Colorado. So for these first few entries I will tell the tale of the day, and maybe add the entries from last year and 1978 on the same day, just to create a contrast.