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January 1989

4 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…