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I came to this campus, with a couple hundred of my brothers and sisters. We stood, our bright yellow frames reflecting the bright March sunshine. It wasn’t this warm in the factory where we were just seven days ago. But here we are, sitting together in a bike rack. Bill put us out there, lining…
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So for the letter C, I have to talk about Cal Lewis. He is almost a bad guy, besides the Germans and the Japanese. This is Cal. He is a ginger, with freckles and all. And he had a gambling issue. That was his thing always. That was how he met his wife, to…
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So for the letter C, I have to talk about Cal Lewis. He is almost a bad guy, besides the Germans and the Japanese. This is Cal. He is a ginger, with freckles and all. And he had a gambling issue. That was his thing always. That was how he met his wife, to…
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B would have to be for Bob Guisewhite. Bob is the hero we all needed in 1945. Bob was a graduate of Texas A&M College with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1939 and promptly did what his ROTC friends did and join the armed services. Bob, a good southern boy, decided on the…
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And so it begins…. It’s the first day of April, and once again it is the blogging challenge, Blogging AtoZ. Each day in April, there will be hundreds (thousands?) of bloggers writing a blog post based on the letter of the day. I forgot to do my theme reveal last week. Okay, I didn’t forget to…
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Poem For Sale by Margo Taft Stever Story: A Family by Guy de Maupassant As much as I enjoyed the A to Z challenge last year, my new job has craziness in April and I just don’t have time to post daily and more importantly, I don’t have time to visit people and that is really what…
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So, maybe this elephant should be afraid of this mouse. Much like I am afraid to write anything too vulnerable during A to Z. But we soldier on… Poem: To E by Sara Teasdale Story: Eve’s Diary, by Mark Twain Who else but Mark Twain could write diaries for Adam and Eve and have them…
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Sometimes you need basics…. Poem: Daymark by Ossian Foley Story: Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin
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And we all like challenges, right? Otherwise, there wouldn’t be the April A to Z challenge. And my “blog-ception” here is a challenge in a challenge. The Ray Bradbury Challenge. Today’s poem is Colorado by Carl Adamshick Today’s story is Choice Spirits, by W. W. Jacobs I have had band/work things until late…