Tag: old friendships

• My Friend Tim

  [Left to right: Jo, Anna, Tim at the White Lion Inn on our last night in Dorset] It was August of 1984.  I was about to begin a year in Dorset, England, when I first met Tim Ovenden.  He was destined to be my house-mate in Wimborne Minster (actually a burb of Wimborne, Colehill).  He…

  patrickjegan

  May 13, 2019

  Blogging, England, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, Real Personal History, seniors, Travels

  Dorset, Gillingham, old friendships, Tim Ovendon, UK

• Two Elderly Gentlemen Walk Into A Pub

    An older man walked into a pub in Burlington, Vermont on a recent Saturday afternoon.  It was minutes away from a heavy rain.  The guy went downstairs to the men’s room.  He was there at the pub to meet an old friend and he was about two minutes late.  As he climbed the stairs,…

  patrickjegan

  September 7, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, History, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  aging, Burlington VT, fly-fishing, growing up, old friendships, owego ny, Susquehanna River, Viet Name