Oh, we’ve got to hold on, ready or not You live for the fight when it’s all that you’ve got Woah, we’re half way there Woah, livin’ on a prayer Take my hand, we’ll make it I swear Woah, livin’ on a prayer Been waiting a long time for this bit of Bon Jovi… finally……
Month: January 2018
T -101 Days: Maps
Maps II Earlier this week, a coworker asked about my upcoming “retirement”. I explained that it was a career change. When told I was going to write, and that my first book was a science fiction novel, I got the response of, “Oh, you must read a lot of science fiction”. “No” was my one…
T -102 Days: Driving down a river
MAPS Remember these? Before Google Maps, before Apple Maps, before Waze, before Garmin… this was the way we navigated. Oh, the tension in the car, with kids, my wife the navigator, me driving. And lost. My wife has many fantastic skills… map reading is not one of them. There we were on one memorable trip,…
T -103 Days: Michigan Day
Happy National Michigan Day… January 18th. Who knew? It is also National Winnie the Pooh day.. and Peking Duck Day. So celebrate!. While watching the Tom Petty movie last night someone said, “We found the treasure without even having the map”. Tomorrow I will have an extended post on the subject of maps… it will…
T -104 Days: Talent
Watching the movie “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:Runnin’ Down a Dream” on Netflix again. Such a good movie. If you haven’t seen it, do it now! How I wish I could find one tiny slice of Petty’s talent within me, and convert it to writing. Regardless, it will be a beautiful search… just one tiny…
T -105 Days: Faith
Fifteen weeks to go! With five weeks of vacation and a couple of holidays, less than 50 normal workdays remaining. Leaving work, changing careers, selling the house, moving to the beach, simplifying, letting go of most of our possessions… all these changes. Someone said… “You must be really stressed” And yet… no. When I think…
T -106 Days: Skating
Yesterday we were eating at out favorite restaurant on the Mississippi River, looking out and gazing at the large expanse of smooth, unbroken ice. I wondered if anyone ever tried ice skating on it. With the swift moving water underneath the ice, probably not the best idea. Ice skating on Lake Michigan, at least very…
T -107 Days: The Last Ice Storm
The Last Ice Storm It was a few years ago, here in Iowa. The day before, I had told my ice storm story from yesterday’s blog, at a staff meeting when we were discussing this upcoming potential ice storm. And now it was very early in the morning, my wife was getting ready to go…
T -108 Days: Ice Storm III
Ice Storm III I had joined a new company in St Louis that fall. Over Christmas we had a major ice storm. It was the kind where you felt you could put on ice skates and cruise the subdivision. But since it was Christmas, it was really a non event for me… we had nowhere…
T -109 Days: Ice Storm II
Ice Storm II Last night I remembered the ice storm that preceded yesterday’s post. My first car was a midnight blue 1966 VW bug. I drove home and parked on the driveway after basketball practice one evening just as freezing rain was rapidly making the roads slick. The next morning, school was canceled due to…