by Hank Frazee | Oct 28, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Haunted House “Good things happen when you meet strangers.” Yo-Yo Ma When Aunt Janice and Uncle Gordon married and moved from Los Angeles to Tarzana, my family followed along. We lived a mile away, and my aunt and uncle’s house was like a wonderland...
by Hank Frazee | Oct 21, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Corn Maze “Fear can make you stronger.” Anonymous On one cold and blustery night, when my twin girls were eleven, we went with their friend, Nicole, to the Pierce College corn maze. Tall and thick and waving in the breeze, the maze covered a couple of...
by Hank Frazee | Oct 7, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
Harold McMurrin “Stories of identity – who we are, where we’ve come from – are the most effective stories of all.” Bill Dauphinais One of the best storytellers I ever knew was my mom’s cousin, Harold McMurrin. Harold had been a singer and actor on...
by Hank Frazee | Sep 30, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
Professor Kroot “Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.” Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was in my junior year in high school, I had a tough science class with a teacher who was even tougher. Professor Kroot was short, bald, and wore a white lab...
by Hank Frazee | Sep 23, 2023 | The Saturday Morning Post
A Single Push-Up “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney My friend Lee Brower has a unique fitness goal. Every day, he puts on his gym shorts with a plan to do a single push-up, because he knows that if he does one push-up,...