For as long as I can remember, April Fool’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. As a child, my younger brother and I would compete to see who could come up with the funniest and most outlandish prank. My mind is jammed packed full of April Fool’s memories: resealed canned good with ...
Even at a young age when I was in grade school I knew that I wanted and was going to accomplish a lot of great things. When I was a child I was actually in special education until I was in the 4th grade due to having a motor skill problem I was born with ...
22 years ago today, I left my home to journey to a place I had never been. As I turned to take one final look at the place I had known as home, I thought to myself, “When I return to this place my life will never be the same.” This journey would introduce me ...
These are the days of Saturdays. Saturdays are the days I take my daughter to visit with my father at the Assisted Living Facility nearby our home. Saturdays are the days we shop for Grandpa, do his laundry, and share time with him. My father is rather young; he is only 69 years old. But, ...
I received some unwelcome news a couple of days ago. A friend passed away. Some may think I am taking some liberties by calling Larry a friend, because I did not know him well, I did not see him often, and I had not maintained a close relationship with him. That being said, in my ...
In the Fall of 1996 I found myself working for a calendar kiosk at our local mall, Coddingtown. Selling calendars in September and October is a worthless endeavor because the buying public isn’t thinking of Christmas gifts yet and for the most part I spent many an evening at the mall standing around the cash ...
I had a rather long and protracted discussion with a young lady in my life. It was deep and cathartic and one of the reasons we men love you women so much, because you can say the things that our male compatriots cannot. This lovely lass told me that I shut people out too much. ...
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