Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
I got up this morning at 7 to write. I am a determined, dedicated artist, I told myself. I opened the document on my computer containing the short story I had started last weekend and had tried to make progress on yesterday, and I felt overwhelmed reviewing it by everything I didn’t know to...
Read more →Today, when she awoke, he saw the dark clouds on the day’s horizon. She would be a furious storm, full of roar and riot, drenched in despair and dangerous darkness, and he knew, after, beyond, when the crackles and flashes and crashes finally faltered and the wild winds had waned and the strength of...
Read more →Tonight, after dinner with my gracious folks at Papa Felipe’s, I came home and finished reading Dowling’s book, “How to be a Husband”. The ending was as good as the beginning. He goes on to handle the stressors of parenting like he handled the stressors of becoming married- with clumsy and comical commitment. The...
Read more →It’s 10:30 PM, and after eating some of my mom’s delicious fudge, and staring at the criss-cross of water lines zigging over the reverse osmosis water tank sitting under the kitchen sink where it sounds like the run-off of a 3 hour torrent is draining into the metal chamber, leaving me wondering what is...
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Without anything greater happening in my life today (except for catching a glimpse of the morning sunrise standing in the middle of my street in a jacket, green checkered pajama pants, slippers, and glasses, and having my neighbor ask me why I was taking pictures of her house until she realized it was me),...
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It was a puzzling moment at the office today. At about 3:30 this afternoon, it was announced overhead by one our staff that we needed to evacuate the office. I headed for the back door of the building with a colleague, and we walked out and onto and up 3rd street to join the...
Read more →My highlight of the day was going to church this morning and sitting quietly alone in the 6th row of the center section, on the seat by the aisle on the right. The lights were down a bit for praise music time, and I just let my mind wander and closed my eyes and...
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I still check eBay and Craigslist off and on for special opportunities to add to my classic Avalon Hill game collection. At times, I wonder why I collect these things. The reality is, I will probably never play most of those games I possess again. And yet, my love affair for those games I...
Read more →It’s a sad and ugly memory to me, but it is what it was. I was a sophomore in high school, and I remember the sun going down and I was alone in the empty driveway of our house practicing basketball basics. I had been shooting baskets for nearly an hour, and in the...
Read more →I revisited my old friend Steven Pressfield the last three evenings by zipping through his short tome on productivity, “Turning Pro”, a follow-up to his earlier kick-in-the-can, “The War of Art”. Pressfield, author of “The Legend of Bagger Vance” and “Gates of Fire”, among other books, knows what it is to be an artist-type...
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I went out to get a haircut near the end of work today, and parked down the street from the barber, out on 3rd, was this beauty. This appears to be a 1957 Chevy pickup.
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I left work tonight and the sky was mostly clear and blue. Except to the west, where I failed to look. Driving home, I realized the sunset was magnificent, and this was the best image I could get of it getting off of I-40 at Louisiana.
Read more →Jimmy is about 5′ 7″, and the first things you notice about him are his round bald head, his youthful smile, and his thick broad shoulders. Jimmy was 17 when he entered in the Air Force. Born in Salina, Kansas, in 1961, his father was a mechanical engineer in the automobile industry, and soon,...
Read more →It’s the last day of the year, so it’s a good time to pick at what transpired over the last 365 days. If I was a more energetic and scientific guy, I would have stats and charts here. Alas, I am lazy. 2017 was a pretty good year for some basic reasons. It also...
Read more →It’s Saturday night, December 30th, 2017. It’s a day after the day I was going to go home, so it’s a bonus day in Wisconsin. We used it by staying up late last night after we got home from La Crosse to watch… Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio looked like a 15 year old. Elizabeth...
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