Archive for the 'Grandpa' Category

Emmy’s Summer Adventures from Bruce Edwards on Vimeo. Filmed by grandpa July 30 through August 1, 2010. It includes her EPIC party celebration set up!

Emmy and Sebo: Cousins! from Bruce Edwards on Vimeo. Mike’s cinematography!

We arrived about 3PM. We found parking and headed to the maternity ward. Matt greeted us outside and led us into her room. And there she was. A bundle. A treasure. A gift. She was offered to Joan, then me. I was a stranger, but she let me in. Maybe she recognized me somehow even [...]

Miss Em is here, and we’re on the road to greet her. Rolling down the interstate we send you these images to introduce you to a southern belle whose debut you must attend.  

35 years ago I became a dad. We went to bed in St. James, MO, on January 7, 1975, wondering, hoping, praying, that this would be the night. It would be. By Noon, Matt was patiently waiting on us, ready to come out, and so he met us at the Rolla, MO hospital. Cold outside, [...]

Grandpaville Thanksgiving

This is something God woke me up to write one winter night in 1982 after we had moved to Bowling Green. I found this along with the previous poem in a folder I had not looked at in a long time, out in the garage. The theme here is constant—a need to play with my [...]

In the summer of 1980, we had lived in Texas one whole year, since we had left Manhattan, KS so I could get my PhD. By late August, we were now living in the international apartments and had welcomed Justin into our family in March. Now I had to prepare for a traumatic event: my [...]

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