Bob Richards

I'm sorry to short-change you but I can't quite recall the many wonderful things that must have occurred between the ages of 0 to 5, BUT you can probably imagine it must have been good! Learning to walk and talk, increasing my vocabulary daily the world was getting a better understanding of what made me tick! I sometimes wonder though what type of baby they considered me to be...cute and adorable? A cry baby? Knowing that I tend to be a rather conservative laid back individual in all likelihood I wouldn't say 'cry baby' best defined me. The time finally came that my parents insisted I go to school. At first there was kindergarten and then grade 1 and 2 and it seems like somewhat of a moot point for we all know that 2 normally follows 1 but not for some. I knew of an odd gifted child who was given the privilege of skipping 2 and were put right into 3, but I'm glad that wasn't my fate! I say that for the reason that well...to be honest....

I was born on June 14th 1957, in the town of Bowmanville , Ontario, Canada In the year of 57. Britain tested their first hydrogen bomb and Elvis Presley recorded his  hit, 'Loving You." I'm confident of course my mother must have sang it to me bringing me home from the hospital. Or could she have sung 'Be Bop Baby' and "I'm All Shook Up" which came out the same year, I just can't say. According to my latest check, the actual day of my birth was a on a Friday, and I've got it on the word of a couple of pretty reliable sourses that the time was around 9:45 p.m. of  the  Eastern Standard Type. Concerning my actual date of birth I'll return to in a moment but just let me say how very fortunate I consider myself to have June as my actual birth month! Except for the very huge, ugly and grotesque June bugs which fly and buzz around the first week of the month, there's just something so lovely and exquisite about June if...

On my very first blog to start off I'll reiterate once again how pleased I am to have you come on board! I was telling everybody else how much I'd hope you'd pop in and WOW! Here you are and yes...I'm talking about YOU. I truly feel honoured and pleased that you would take the time to do so and sincerely hope you will find this an interesting, fun, enjoyable place to be! I'm confident that with you hopefully leaving comments from day to day that there'll be much food for thought for all of us to consider, and please don't be shy or hesitate to post! Your participation is valuable to me and I'll try to do my very best as time allows to give a response. I call my blog 'The Bigger Picture' for isn't that one of the main things we should encourage one another to look to in life, to look beyond just surface reasoning, and to consider every aspect of whatever subject and theme? In so doing I would suggest we can arrive at seeing things ...