Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Friday, March 7, 2025

WHAT GOES INTO SELF-PUBLISHED WORK

One day at the custodial department, lunch hour, we sat around a table in the break room, eating our sandwiches, sipping coffee and sharing stories. You may remember a recent post about John C.'s history - ship's electrician, master craftsman, and incapable of completing a sentence without using... Sign in to see full entry.

JEEPERS BITES THE DUST

There was a song, way back when: "Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers? Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those eyes?" It may be that's where Mom got the idea for naming our pup. Jeepers was half-coyote, half shepherd mix - and as she used to say, "the worst half of both." He couldn't... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

EXCERPT FROM DAYS IN THE CUSTODIAL DEPT

It was the 1960's. My boss in the Maintenance Dept. at SIUE was John C. We were real-world, real-work oriented, rather than an academic department. "Don't start vast projects with half-vast ideas" became our mantra as a response to various education-based administrators with no concept of what it... Sign in to see full entry.

ABOUT THE SPEECH TO CONGRESS

I watched ALL of Trump's snark session (aka speech to a joint session of Congress) last night. He claimed this is the start of the golden age for America, and at least 25 times he used the phrase "like nobody's ever seen." He was right about that, nobody's ever seen that sh*t because it exists only... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Swings

How would you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it's the pleasantest thing ever a child could do. There was a time in the 70s when 'swinging' was a thing. Not the innocent pleasure of giving yourself a backward push and pumping so high you were about to go over the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 3, 2025

From School Days long ago

"I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. But this I will say anyhow, I'd rather see than be one." I believe this was in my childhood Mother Goose nursery rhymes collection. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Tom Mix, Matt Dillon, The Lone Ranger

I miss the westerns. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

A FRIEND, REMEMBERED

A few years ago, when I was a volunteer at the Main Street Community Center, I met a patron named Abdel. He was a naturalized citizen, originally from Tunisia, a French colony in northern Africa. Abdel had some health issues, and even though he was only in his 50s, he had retired. He jumped at the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

THE BIG CHILL

If you remember, "The Big Chill" was the title of a movie that came out in 1983 about a group of old school chums who get together for the funeral when one of their friends dies. This is not about that kind of chill... Here in Beautiful Downtown Mundane it is cold enough to turn a birdbath into an... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 17, 2025

POLITICS? THANK YOU, NOT TODAY.

I get more greasy politics than my stomach can stand on TV, where I have a remote in hand, trigger finger ready to switch to the Game Show Network. But some folks on social media share a lot of political posts they glean from other sources. So, for the sake of my mental health I sometimes put them... Sign in to see full entry.

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