This is the third, and last time I went to California. The brother of my girlfriend at the time was a young guy named Joe.  […]

(Warning:  This post contains photos that may be disturbing to some people, but are essential to the story) I started the hobby of geocaching in […]

You would think that with a name like “Paul Konopacki” there wouldn’t be much of a chance of mistaken identity. On July 10, 2019 (Wednesday), […]

AEP River Operations For eight years, I worked for a company called AEP River Operations.  It was previously called MEMCO (“Marine Equipment Management Company”).  The […]

My mom is 100% Scandinavian (Danish) ancestry.  My sister and I were born with blond hair and blue eyes.  Through the years, my hair turned […]

In 1965, when we lived on base housing in Duluth, Minnesota, I would ride my tricycle around the inner courtyard sidewalk.  My mom said I […]

Dropout After graduating high school in 1979, it was a given that I would go on to college at a University of Wisconsin extension school.  […]

My grandmother, Dora Koch, used to play the organ during church service at the West Denmark Lutheran Church.  Her husband, Holger Koch, was the pastor.  […]

In the 1960s, the Tooth Fairly handed out a dime for every baby tooth my sister and I lost.  The family dentist was Dr. Witte […]

My mom was a simple cook. It was never anything she wanted to spend a lot of time doing. A special meal was a Salisbury […]

I recon I developed tinnitus in my teenage years.  When there is constant ringing in your ears you don’t notice it.  The high-pitched sound doesn’t […]

In the early 1970s, I was a teenager living in Luck, Wisconsin.  Our neighbor was a kind old lady named Agnes Nielsen.  She would pay […]

Introduction In the mid 1970s, one of my friends was Jeff Skow.  We were both in the same grade at Luck High School (graduation class […]

In 1977, I took a typewriter class at Luck High School. I estimate there were about 20 seats with mostly manual typewriters on the desks.  […]

Moving to a New Town When I first moved to the Detroit, Michigan area to start my professional career as a computer programmer, I did […]

I went to Washington D.C. on a 4-H trip for the “Citizenship Short Course” (August 14 – 19, 1977).  The purpose of the trip was […]

It was the summer of 1978.  I was 17 years old.  I had been thinking about going to California for the summer, but never shared […]

First, let me say I am not a ‘gun nut’, nor am I against the U. S. Second Amendment.  I own guns and shoot them […]

“Want a sip?” My very first taste of beer was given to me by my dad.  I was about 14 years old.  We were standing […]

Night Shift In the summer of 1982, I was living in a rented apartment in an old building at 399 Ashland Ave (Cathedral Hill) in […]