Close Up of Randy Wheelock

I am incredibly shy. As my daughter likes to say about herself, "People are amazed at how shy I am!" In high school I was very sensitive and shy, and didn’t understand why I had to attend Saturday school so often. Students were given demerits for terrible deeds. Five demerits and you had to attend "Jug", or Saturday school. I had to attend every Saturday. All of my demerits were for talking in class and interrupting the teacher. That was a very traumatic thing to have happen to someone as shy as me.

When I landed in Idaho Springs in 1971 on the way to Aspen, my $125 Ford LTD, despite its white leather bucket seats, dropped the last of its transmission fluid in the street. All I had left was $100 and the sound of my Okie relatives' laughter ringing in my ears. They were sure I'd be back within a week, my tail between my legs. I showed them. I didn't have a car to get back home. Hah!!

I started stalking the little red haired girl at the high school. After a few years, her parents finally gave up and started feeding me. That's her in the picture. Her name is Eileen. We now have two daughters, a grandson and some dogs and stuff.

We all want stuff. We just have to figure out how to fit all of it and ourselves onto this planet without falling off, and leave room for our great, great, really great grandchildren to fit, too.

Every other Saturday at 2:00 PM we’ll try to figure out how on...

Neighborhood: Earth - We'll learn how to treat the planet as though we intend to stay..