Colonial Heights. To most young boys growing up in Christiansburg, Virginia in the early 1960’s, these 2 words were magical, almost mythical. It meant one thing – the Boys Invitational Baseball (BIB) Tournament sponsored by the Optimist Club of Colonial Heights, Virginia. Started in 1957, the tournament involved 16 Little League teams (11 and 12…
Author: wahoo2727
I’m a practicing lawyer and wanna be humorist. I grew up in Christiansburg, Va and have lived most of my adult life in Clarksburg, WV. Most of my writings are what I like to call observational humor. I also love sports, particularly the Boston Red Sox and UVA. I bleed Wahoo Orange and Blue.
Musings on being a Lawyer
I am a lawyer. There, I’ve said it. We all know that the first step to recovery is admitting your condition, so there you go. My main client refers to his brother as a “recovering lawyer”. The law was not my first ambition. When I was in grade school I wanted to be an architect….
The Alzheimer’s Whisperer
I previously wrote a column about the fact that my wife and best friend has Early Onset Alzheimer’s, a crippling disease which has rendered her essentially a quadriplegic over the course of a few, agonizing years. She has gone from a vibrant and athletic and witty lady to someone who cannot rise from bed or feed…
Serious
I have a hobby of trying to come up with a single word to capture the essence of people I know, usually an adjective. It is not that people are that easily pigeonholed, but rather certain people have a dominant characteristic that they exude, that is central to the core of who they are. The…
The Greatest Lawyer I Have Ever Known
Chutzpah is the Yiddish word for it. Cohones is the word you find for it in the Urban Dictionary. “It” is that certain something that few of us have, that something that we admire, that something that we all wish we had, at least at some point in our lives. It is that certain combination…
A short walk
I am reminiscing about something I did a few years ago – something that I had only done once before and that I won’t get to do again in my lifetime. It was one of life’s magical moments, one that has few parallels. One that I wish everyone could experience at some point in their…
CATS (and stuff about dogs, too)
I am a “cat person” now. I started to say I am “officially” a cat person, but I doubt there is a certification process. If there was one, it would probably involve something like the Nissan Heisman House on the tv ads, where the residents would be women in their 80’s who each own 8…
Bud-Hoo 