Saturday night (delayed) – whitefish

August 12, 2018 johncohn Leave a comment

I fell asleep last night without blogging. I have hardly ever done that.

Greetings from whitefish Montana. Diane and i are out here for a family reunion. Gabe and max both will show up on Tuesday . My mom, my sister and her family and my brother and his family are all here. As a cool Su Rowe also have our good friend Nate and his climbing buddy Jacon

The house is three stories tall and right on a small lake called whitefish lake

Here are some views from here

Billy rented a power boat

hmmm. Trying a new app and having trouble editing the text

Ill try from another app

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Friday night – not flowers

August 10, 2018 johncohn Leave a comment

Went crazye yesterday takign pictures of all the flowers in the garden.. then realized no one wants ot look at pictures of normal flowers.. So .. here are not flowers from Diane’s garden for your enjoyment

nice to look at the world differently sometimes.. no ?

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – Ticker !

August 9, 2018 johncohn Leave a comment

A couple of days ago Diane was listening to ‘On Point’ on NPR. They were interviewing the author of a new book called Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart . I haven’t heard the interview yet.. but she talked about my brother Billy and his close colleague Bud Frazer and the work they’re doign on developing a new artificial heart.

You can catch the episode here http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/08/08/ticker-artificial-heart-mimi-swartz

Diane then went to Audible and bought the audio book. She’s already 6 hours in to the 9 hour book. We listend to chapter 12 together.. and its ALL ABOUT BILLY !!!!!.. We haven’t gotten fuirther.. but I know he’s gonna come back in big time in the final chapters.

I just bought the book on Amazon Kindle.

Just starting it now..I know the story by heart (lol) .. but its so fun and surreal to be reading this. You have to check it out !!!

so proud of Billy !.. What an amazing contribution to the world !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – Talent

August 8, 2018 johncohn Leave a comment

I’ve been wondering how to wriite this post for a while. Our Friends Dave and Hannah just had to close Talent.. the skate park/skate shop where our kids and their friends hung out as kids. It got too hard to compete with online sales.. Last Sunday was their last day. Many of our friends went down to.. what.. pay their respects ? I guess thats how I’d put it..as it does kinda feel like a passing..

Talent has been a fixture here for as many years as I can remember having kids.. Hannah and Dave were like surrogate parents to many of those kids.. and like super-cool aunts and uncles to our kids. Hannah and Dave were good teachers, excellent mentors and great role models. They had passion for their business and their craft. They were/are so generous with their time and advice and they sold excellent gear and hired the best folks… and so many freinds we met thought there. . many of whom are still close friends of ours. Whenever kids in the area needed help or a safe place.. Talent was there. They he;ped soem many kids in the community through camps and after school programs.. They were the grownups that every kid could talk to and relate to .

Talent was the place we went when we had something to celebrate .. or something sad to work through. When Sam died, Hannah, Dave and the rest of the Talent staff and Sam friends organized benefit skates.. .. Talent has sold Sam Shirts for the last 12 years.. and still had cool Sam posters until the dya they closed. .. same when Dylan died, or Pucket died,.. or A-dog.. or… wow.. so many in this community.

They were there for all of us when things were sad.. but thats not the way I’ll remember them at all .. the place was almost always fun and crazy.. skate camps, locki-ns, pizza parties, .. or just hanging out. I remember so many hours watch Sam or gabe going back and forth on those ramps and jumps, .. even a couple of broken bones just added to the fun.

We got to knwo Hannah and Dave’s family well.. their kids Senyah and Adah.. (they call me ‘whiskers”) .. hannahs mom, dad and sisters.. Daves friends From Mass. Feels like a big extended family. I took a quick look thofuth my blog and found a ton of posts and pics of Hannah. Dave, their family and talent .