What we learn with pleasure, we never forget. ∼Alfred Mercier *** I somehow managed to snag two higher education degrees in my day, one in engineering and the other in business, and with them I made my living. Having those two disciplines served me well throughout my career; not bad for […]
Category: Life Stories
With covid and all, most of us have been included in many Zoom meetings by now. I have, and really appreciate the benefit of being able to attend a meeting in my underwear, while sipping beer from my coffee mug. Being deaf as a rock, I struggle to hear the discussions, but […]
Gambling brought our family closer together…we had to move into a smaller house. ∼ Tommy Cooper Many years ago, early in my career, I started working at a factory in Northern Illinois. It was a medium size company, and came with a full cast of characters, who occupied many of the positions […]
I have always been a morning person. I had a lot of reinforcement for being a morning person from my days as a kid, working a morning paper route. Some mornings, particularly cold winter mornings, I hated getting out of bed, but most mornings I didn’t mind. […]
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Our family friend Frank Romero passed away late last year. Frank was ninety-one years old, and in good health up until the last few years, so he had […]
For a time, back in the early 1970’s, I worked part time at Shakey’s Pizza Parlor in Riverside, California. I was stationed at March Air Force Base, where I had eighteen months left of my four-year Air Force hitch. I had served one […]
My guest writer today is my long time friend Tommy Nielsen. Besides being one of my fishing partners,Tommy is a great fellow to be around, always cheerful, helpful, and kind…with a great sense of humor. Tommy is a Veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines, a proud member of Kenosha’s Navy Club Ship 40, The […]
I’ve had the opportunity to see many live musical performances. Of all the ones I’ve seen, there are several that I’ve probably enjoyed the most. There was an old rock and roll revival band called Sha Na Na, which I enjoyed seeing. They really livened […]
The old octopus Back in the day, our cape cod home on the south side of Kenosha, was heated by a coal furnace. My dad, ever frugal, was one of the last holdouts in the area to convert to oil or natural […]
There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both on a bicycle! ― Mehmet Murat ildan When I was a kid in Kenosha, Wisconsin, our bicycles were our life lines to the world. From the age of eight, and on into high school we depended […]