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

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Thursday, March 13, 2025

SPRING IS ABOUT TO ARRIVE

It's gorgeous here today. A repeat of yesterday's sunshine and soft breezes and a high of around 80 degrees. Lovely change from those last couple weeks of ice underfoot, Arctic breezes and snow that refuses to melt. Yesterday as I drove out to do a bit of shopping I saw daffodils blooming along the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Imagine!

Woke up from a daydream where the Hon. Chuck Schumer gave a rousing speech on the Senate floor, and got all the Democrats and some of the Republicans up off their butts and shaking their fists at the freak show streaming from the White House. We ain't gonna take it anymore! That whole production -... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Writers Group

Maybe 15 or 20 years ago I belonged to a group of local writers who met once a week at our local Borders bookstore. We enjoyed being able to buy coffee and snacks at the counter, and could push a couple tables together as the group expanded. And then Borders sold out to another chain, whose name I... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 9, 2025

THE INITIATIVE

A long time ago Dr. K had a small replica on his desk of one of those massive Easter Island heads. Someone in one of his geography classes had given him the sculpture as a thank you. When he became the director of our department, he placed it on a bookshelf in the conference room. This was where we... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 8, 2025

THE THING ABOUT BULLIES

When our little family moved to Salkum in the spring of '47, we did not get a visit from the welcome wagon. In that closed little society, newcomers were greeted with suspicion, and in our case, disdain. A divorcee with three kids, arriving suddenly just weeks before the end of the school year?... Sign in to see full entry.

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.

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