Last week I brought in the mail, gave it to Lynnda and headed to my office. I few minutes later I heard, “Fourteen hundred dollars!” I ran in to see what was going on. Lynnda said, “Our electric bill is over fourteen hundred dollars!” We are on an annual budget. October is settle-up month. I […]
Years prior to my 2019 soccer injury, I was excited to be part of West Virginia’s first over 50 Veterans Cup Team. The Veterans Cup is a National Soccer Tournament. Players had to be over 40 years old. Our team prepared for months practicing and playing together. We scrimmaged the University of Charleston’s men’s team. […]
Dad was a carpenter. It was a skill he chose to develop. Maybe it was in his genes. He went through a carpentry apprenticeship to help him develop his skills. We lived in a rented row house in Pittsburgh. The landlord decided to sell the property and we had to move. I remember my parents […]
We have a large extended family. My Dad had three brothers and a sister. Mom had 5 brothers. We were a blue-collar family. When someone was moving they didn’t hire a mover. They called family and everyone showed up to help including us kids. Someone always knew someone who had a truck. The women prepared […]
This week, squirrels in my neighborhood are running all over. Our neighborhood has a lot of hickory trees. What’s unusual, they all have nuts in their mouth and aren’t eating them now. Instead they are carrying them up to their tree nests preparing for winter. Preparing for tomorrow is something people can do, like cutting […]
