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

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

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

As I have posted in several of my other stories, I take words at their original face value meaning.  The other day a phrase popped into my mind. “This is the first day of the rest of your life”.  Anyone who has made a mistake in their life that might

Was there ever a time in your life when it felt like you might have been sleeping for years, or maybe just been on another planet? Strange question right?    Well, that is what it seemed like to me a year or so ago.  That big box store I mentioned

My 13-year-old son and I had been living in a suburb of a southern city for almost a year.  We had moved down there from a small town in the Northeast to be closer to family after struggling to make ends meet following a divorce from his father.   We