Steven Skelley

PAWPAW'S  MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 41 Pawpaw loves Connor! Pawpaw loves Bryson! Pawpaw loves Archer! As a singer/songwriter, I have performed in many different and sometimes odd venues from a one-room schoolhouse to churches to schools to theaters to television to radio to coffehouses to restaurants to festivals and more. One of the zaniest happened in Akron, Ohio. I was approached by a biker wearing his club leather and colors. He had long hair and a long beard and huge arm muscles. He explained that he was a club member and he owned a biker bar. BUT, he had recently come to follow God and had turned his biker bar into a biker coffehouse. No more alcohol! He asked me to come sing in his biker no-alcohol bar. I did! Singing Jesus-music to a bunch of bikers deprived of alcohol turned out to be a blast. It probably helped that I looked like them at the time. Step outside your comfort zone. It may be a blast! Hugs, Pawpaw

PAWPAW'S  MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 40 Pawpaw loves Connor! Pawpaw loves Bryson! Pawpaw loves Archer! Today is November 4, 2021. Today started at 8:10 a.m. with my 27th surgery. This one was on my right knee. It is called a Nerve Ablation. The surgeon goes into my knee in three spots and uses a laser to burn the nerves to death so I won't have pain for several months. It has been an especially difficult day because I have been missing you and thinking about you. I looked through photos of you that I have here. At one point, I even kissed my phone looking at a photo of you. My heart is broken.  Dear Archer, I wish that I had been allowed to know you, hold you and spend time with you. Even from afar, I still loved and love you. Pawpaw