Category: Work, Writing. Reading, Watching

Two floors up The father yells, the mother yells The kid runs Up and down the hall, back and forth The kid runs Running away, running for peace, please stop Then it stops, is it over? Two floors up The father yells, the mother yells, or was it reversed? Doesn’t matter The kid runs Up…

This has been a time of pain, agony and fear. Welcome to Annual Closing. Decades of brutal closings of the books. Ok, some years not so bad. But always working long, long hours. Worrying. Any lurking surprises? Just when you thought you had a successful close, someone would drop something completely unexpected and un-forecast on…

There I was, driving to the courthouse this morning. Not the one in Grand Haven, but one 35 minutes away (this is a big county!). My eyes were so dry. I still have been having a little trouble with my right eye from the Bell’s Palsy… but this was both eyes. Dry, tired, hurting. As…

Sunny, 80 degrees every day. The perfect life at the perfect beach. For some. For me, I call it terrarium living. Predictable. Boring. Imagine establishing a colony on Mars. You could have one huge dome to keep your sanity and feel like you are on Earth… in nature. Inside that dome you could have one…

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”   ― Blaise Pascal Heard from an old coworker today while I was at the brewhouse. What a flashback! Annual closing must be bearing down on them. Tense, painful times almost every year. New Year’s Eve and Day meant work… no joy,…

Far and away, 2018 has been the best year ever. Yet the one thing missing, always on my mind, has been the book. We have been enjoying life to the maximum in Michigan. But while doing so, my wife completed seventeen “yarn projects”, and has three more underway. Me? I have been getting ready. Reading…

Do you remember your first time? No, not that first time. The first time you were truly and lastingly motivated by your coach or manager? My first time was when I was playing for my high school freshmen basketball team. Even on the freshmen team, it was about winning, not necessarily everyone getting to play….

“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” –William Faulkner I keep finding myself…