Teri Sue Wyatt and her folks were part of the Lay Witness Mission (LWM) team that came to First UMC of Enid, OK in 1971. I was active in the church as a matter of habit but leery of the LWM. Teri Sue and I didn’t meet but her folks told her there was a […]
I am calendar-driven. If it’s on my calendar, I will be there and I will be on time. When I’m finished with a job, I clean up the work area and put my tools away in their proper place. The old saying is: “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” That’s why I […]
The story of my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago is in another document but I wanted to at least tell how I got there, what I learned and what it meant to me. The Camino is something I had never heard of and was never on my “bucket list.” The idea of walking 540 […]
OPINIONS ON CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS — this section is difficult for me. It leaves me vulnerable, a position I don’t like to be in because of the potential of being hurt and/or not liked. MY CHRISTIAN FAITH By any American understanding of what a Christian is, I am a Christian. I professed my faith at a […]
These are sayings, quotes, phrases, articles, books or some other form of communication that have meant much to me over the years. Do something, even if it’s wrong. (my dad, Vic Draggoo) Dad was not a fan of “paralysis by analysis.” Growing up, I wanted so badly to be perfect to avoid looking foolish, that […]
Some people are lucky enough to know early in their lives what they want to be when they grow up. I was never that lucky. You may have noticed that although I have done some pretty cool stuff, nothing lines up. It’s true: all my life, when an opportunity has come up, my response has […]
I’ve already mention that Roy, Jim and I had grown up singing together. We even formed a folk trio while attending WSU and won the campus-wide talent show. While I reported to active duty in 1969, Roy and Jim continued their education at WSU, and after they graduated in 1972, they moved to Enid, OK […]
In June 1969 I reported to UPT. Within the first week I realized I needed a car and the local Volkswagen dealership was only too happy to sell a 1969 VW bug to a new pilot trainee whose military pay could be garnished if he didn’t make his loan payments. I lived in the Bachelor […]
I received an appointment to the US Air Force Academy from Washington State Senator Walt Horan but I applied to Stanford University just for fun. When Stanford turned me down (grades) and the AFA also turned me down (excessive refractive error in my right eye, not pilot qualified) I suddenly had no college to attend. […]
I don’t remember when Roy, Jim and I started singing as a trio. We had always sung in the car on long trips (“Catch A Falling Star” by Perry Como, “The Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant…..) but somewhere along the way Mom got us started singing together. Mom had always been musical – playing piano […]