by Hank Frazee | Aug 2, 2025 | The Saturday Morning Post
ODCTMW “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.” Mother Teresa I always knew I wanted to get married when I grew up. I thought about it a lot. Over time, I began to think there must be something wrong with me, or I would have found her...
by Hank Frazee | Jul 26, 2025 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Barbecue “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Mark Twain Aunt Mary and Uncle Jack lived in La Cañada, near Pasadena. Aunt Dolores and Uncle John lived right behind them, one street over. When we were...
by Hank Frazee | Jul 19, 2025 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Babysitters “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.” Mary Poppins By all accounts, my cousin Nancy was a precious baby. She was the first of the twelve cousins of my generation. So it took six or seven months for Aunt Dolores to...
by Hank Frazee | Jul 12, 2025 | The Saturday Morning Post
It Pays to Be Nice! “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter–’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain My aunt and uncle had a cabin on a lake above Lake Tahoe. In the...
by Hank Frazee | Jul 5, 2025 | The Saturday Morning Post
The Last Buzzcut “The trick is growing up without growing old.” Casey Stengel This is one of the last photos of me with a buzzcut, or what was known back then as a butch. We were up at my aunt and uncle’s cabin, and my cousins Stephen and Rory and I went into Reno for...
