Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams
Last week, when I rewrote my story about my early days of employment, I was trying to cut about 200 words out of the original story, ‘cuz I care about you guys (he says as he’s meandering around the point of a One-Liner Wednesday post). Anyway, I rewrote a bunch of sections, left out some... Continue Reading →
Maddie and I usually walk on Saturday and Sunday. She often walks with the Editor during the week, but then they fall into their normal routine. I should add that their normal routine doesn’t include me barging in, slamming opening and closing doors, toggling lights, responding to sounds on my phone or yelling for asking... Continue Reading →
When we are planning on going out to dinner, I don’t like to eat very much for lunch. On the other hand, even though we eat dinner early, it’s not like I’m going to make it all day without a meal. So, I have breakfast. It’s not much of a disruption, since I love having... Continue Reading →
On a recent walk with Maddie, we got to watch a little scene play out high atop the lights at the baseball field. It reminded me of the guys who tried too hard to pick up women in bars. I’m sure this activity still goes on, but it brought me back to the early 80s... Continue Reading →
I have permission to use today’s one-liner, but only if I add a certain disclaimer as to ultimate culpability. That disclaimer requires a disclaimer and permission from another party. Confused yet? I thought so. OK. The one-liner, courtesy of my (I normally say ‘our’ but it’s ‘my’ for the purposes of this post) daughter, comes... Continue Reading →
Last Friday, I settled into a nice comfortable seat on AMTRAK’s Vermonter, getting ready to enjoy a six-hour ride home from Washington, D.C. I take the Vermonter because it’s a through train to my destination, meaning that I don’t have to change trains in New Haven, CT. Trust me, that’s huge. That means I can... Continue Reading →
I can say with authority, that when a young man becomes smitten with a young woman, there is hardly anything he won’t do to gain her attention. One summer, when I was working for the Post Office, one of the stops on my route was the state psychiatric hospital where my mother worked. She was... Continue Reading →
Or not. It’s not like I’m running to be the next guy to attempt to sink the ship of state. No, I’m just submitting an entry in Linda G. Hill’s kinda-sorta-annual One-Liner Wednesday Badge Contest. I entered last year, too. I didn’t win. I didn’t win the popular vote or the Electoral College vote. I... Continue Reading →
Last year, I made a promise to many of my regular readers. I agreed to remind them before National Train Day, so they could organize their thoughts, photos and write their posts. It seems that I was already in error, as AMTRAK had cancelled National Train Day last March, in order to save some of... Continue Reading →
