A flooring contractor. Probably tile specialist. I hear that job is hard on the body. So, had I passed the man in Home Depot, I may have taken him for such a worker, with his knee brace and tennis elbow strap on his forearm – had I even noticed him at all. His stringy,Read more
So tell me what I said I’d never do Tell me what I said I’d never say Read me off a list of the things I used to not like but now I think are OK -“Do It Anyway,” Ben Folds Five Growing up in Taylors, South Carolina during the late ’70’s and early ’80’sRead more
In fourth grade, I played fiddle, I mean violin, in the Brook Glenn Elementary School orchestra. For a month. Then, for some long forgotten reason, I switched to the double bass, otherwise known as the upright bass or bass fiddle. Standing almost six feet tall, the instrument was huge for a fourth-grader. For anybody, really.Read more
“Hey, let’s go check it out,” Tim said to me and motioned up the hill, into the woods. I looked in that direction. Probably 75 yards away stood an abandoned house, swallowed up by the forest. In winter, with no foliage, you could get a better glimpse of the crumbling structure. Now, though, in the middle ofRead more
The clear plastic is not so clear anymore. The corners of the lid have a few cracks, so I use extreme caution when opening it. Otherwise, for a Tupperware container that is almost as old as I am (it actually says ‘Made in the USA’ on the lid), it is in pretty good shape. EachRead more
Well, here we are. The Christmas season. For some, a season of joy. The decorating, the shopping, the memories of Christmases past are a real charge. For others, not so much. The decorating, the shopping, the memories of Christmases past can be a real downer for them. Bells will be ringing the sad, sad newsRead more
At age nine, I started my organized baseball career at Northwood Little League. Having missed the tee ball years, I was a little behind. For the first two and a half seasons, I had delusions of playing infield. Usually in Little League, the better players are in the infield, with the best player normally atRead more