Skip to content
Wild Krumpos

Day

Sunday, January 1, 1989

2 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…