This week, I published my 500th post. I can say without hesitation that I never would have predicted I would be a writer. In school, I always aced my classes in English, Writing, Composition and Language Arts. I made stellar grades on all papers and written assignments. Then again, I aced all of my academic…
Knocked Right Out Of His Shoes
I was reading an article online about a car accident (or bombing or plane crash) on a major news site. The picture that accompanied the article was of a single shoe laying in the middle of the road. We are led to believe this is an actual on the scene photo and the shoe is…
Living Without Air Conditioning
Based on my own anecdotal experience, it does seem warmer now than 40 years ago. Summers are hotter and longer. Fall and Spring are warmer and shorter. Winters are less freezing. Every summer, during the hottest months, there are news reports about the “climate crisis” and the “deadly heat waves”. I doubt these news accounts…
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
I revamped my website and published over 50 new posts since I’ve been on restricted activity while I recover from my hernia surgery. I also decided to allow comments on all posts and added a simple contact page. I had removed these because of SPAM and bots but found what appears to be an effective…
Reset
Before I had my first hernia surgery last year, I wasn’t sure how long I’d be unable to exercise. I decided to wrote out my extensive exercise routine so that when I recovered, I wouldn’t forget anything. As I returned to working out this week, following my 2nd hernia surgery, I reviewed this document. I…
Old Lady
Last year I was driving down the street when I saw an older woman (senior citizen) sitting on the sidewalk and a younger woman (thirties?) squatting beside her. Something looked amiss so Pulled over and asked, “Do you need help?” The old woman said, “No, I’m fine” and the young woman said “Yes we do.”…
Hanging Onto A Thread Of Kindness
You might never know the real result of your small act kindness. After my wife died in 2018, I was overwhelmed with grief. I buried myself in projects: selling the house, giving away all of our stuff, and planning a road trip. The projects helped me get through the day – for a while. But…
Speak Of The Devil
I am not on Twitter so I’m not sure how I came across this tweet thread while surfing the internet during my hernia recovery, but it cracked me up. After a quick laugh, I went on to watch dog rescue videos and waste time and brain cells browsing the Internet. But the line “Satanists don’t…
The Natural
I met Jesse in the ‘hood when I was 13. I was roller skating past his house and he was doing skating tricks out front. We decided to go skating together. After 2 years of painstaking practice, lots of falls, and too many “clips” from faster skaters at the community center, I’d reached a point…
Punching The Clock
At the age of five, I learned to despise being “on the clock”. It started in 1st grade at lunch. We had a set time for lunch which included recess. At the end of this, a bell would ring and we had to hustle back into school. Later, in middle school, we had computer tone…