Dick Buck:  

Life would have graduated in '74, but went to work instead. Got married at 18 (just barely!) to Sandra Smith from Issaquah. Had two girls, moved around western Wa a lot, returning to N.Bend once or twice. Sandy died in '81, got married again in '84, had a son, now divorced and living in a 2010 Peterbuilt 386, traveling the US, meeting lots of people, having fun and, uh, oh yeah, sort of making a living. Life is good, I kind of like it. Kind of hard on relationships though, my last g/f broke up with me when I was 120 miles from home. Of course, it might have had something to do with the fact I'd been gone 3 months, and couldn't really tell her if I was coming home for sure or not. Oh well. So, ladies of my youth, when I DO get back, (maybe June) I could use a dinner companion when I take my sister and her husband out. That is, if any of you are still young at heart, and like to have fun instead of comparing aches, pains, disfunctional moments and the state of your ... whatever. LIFE is for the living, and I have met too many of my generation who are more worried about dying than living, which I really can't understand, because all of us should only be 50 something going on 20 something. Life is for living, laughing, and loving. Remember that. I said so. I kind of wrote a couple songs, and yes I have sung them in public. I really did!!!!! I was sober too! I was shocked and amazed at the reaction I got. Younger people trie...Expand for more