TERRY GROVES

Mom was a small woman compared to the sons she raised, but she was big enough to keep us in line. She had to be with dad being called...

I remember Mom telling Dad how the next door neighbor's boy had asked to be driven somewhere. The response had been that the gas tank in...

We can get called by many names during out life. Here is the history of my nicknames

Growing up a military brat, for me, resulted in a fair bit of regimentation in my childhood. I am not certain it would have been the same...

Did you grow up believing a misconception?

Being a brat didn't always involve just military settings. Sometimes we got to interact with the civilian population at a more personal leve

Can kids be trusted to make smart decisions?

This story meanders a bit but illustrates a couple of brat bits of wisdom. I left home at 17 after graduating high school. I went to...

Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts were a constant theme throughout my youth. Through the activities and my never-ending quest to amass proficiency...

My first job had a profound effect on my career

Even when I was so young I was still mastering walking, we were encouraged to spend time outside. In the winter, the activities were...

Growing up in a military family, being one of six boys, finances were always tight. Mom and Dad did what they could to squeeze every...

Some challenges seem so much bigger when they are right in front of you.

Not only did I learn to build relationships with other brats, I learned about non-brats too

When we first moved to Clinton, we brought our cat, whom we had named Cotton because she was all white, with us from Winnipeg....

What sort of stuff grows in a dump?

Even when I was really young I had a passion for plastic models. For me, it was the assembly, fitting the parts together to make...

So, you wanna do something about it? Fighting as a kid.

Moving always meant another opportunity to meet good people.

Winter can be so magical when you are a kid.