Working with wood is a mixture of emotions wrapped up and bubbling over. The biggest one is now total attention. Embarrassingly it wasn’t always that way. Here is the memory of the day that all changed. I was raised in an era where D.I.Y. did not exist. It didn’t exist because everything was do-it-yourself. […]
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While looking through my memories, I was surprised that there didn’t seem to be any particular order to them. It also seemed that a bit of thought or word could bring one up to the forefront with lightning speed. Here is one that didn’t happen that long ago but is probably one of the
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In a previous post titled, “The Tagline Begins Here,” I introduced the company I happen to be working for when the events from the following story took place. By the time this particular experience took place, my boss and I had discovered that we had grown up in the same small town! He still lived
There used to be two wholesale plumbing supply businesses in the small town that I currently live in. There was also a retail plumbing and hardware store. I worked at the retail plumbing and hardware store for about 5 years when the president of one of the wholesale companies approached me concerning a position
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This is a story of one of my cats, her name was Misty. She had the most beautiful coloring of grey, cream, and white. Her personality never ceased to amaze me. She had a very playful streak in her, but her gentle nature is what was so very amazing to witness. I remember
While sitting here typing away one day on one of the stories from my late teens, I found myself thinking just how many years had gone by. I am now old enough to say: “That was a lifetime ago!” And for just a moment, a few milestone memories flashed across the screen of an imaginary
The other day, I was relating to a co-worker, my story titled: “What Would You Do For Five Dollars?” When I arrived at the part where I intervened in the soon-to-be one-sided fight, she looked up at me and said, “You intervened?” My affirmation told her a lot about what makes me tick. I
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I was at work the other day bantering back and forth with a few of the younger people. Of course, it does not escape me that, at my age, most of the people there are younger! Fortunately, I have accepted this with humor. Since I work in a warehouse atmosphere, the bantering can get
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Life had accomplished what it seemingly had set out to do. I felt kicked in the teeth and beat up enough that I was going to give up. In an earlier story titled, “As the Journey Goes” I addressed that despondent period of my life. This story is about the very next part of
I am not sure why the following memories came to my mind recently. They all are of the same person who was part of mine and my son’s father’s life very many years ago. Some of the memories are amusing, some were not. Having lived through so many different (for lack of description) venues in