Beyond the Eagle's Nest

Southwest Nebraska: 1922-40 Grandfather referred to me as That boy. Friends, teachers, and neighbors seldom used my given name. Newcomers pondered my surname. Without a father to guide him, they whispered, that kid'll never amount to a tinker's dam. More than once, he'll wish they'd left him for the coyotes, especially if his eyes go bad like others in that family. Washington State-Big trees, big men, big problems: 1940-59 Man on! Going up! For fifteen years, these words sent me to the top of a 140-foot logging spar, hallmark and pinnacle of Pacific Northwest logging. The Bygone Era-The VA Blind Rehab-Retirement: 1959-2004