• Duck Duck Goose

    “Tiffany, I’ve got to talk to you, can I close the door?” Penny swooped into my office and swung the door shut before I could answer. The pile of preschool applications on my desk blew off in the breeze of the door. Penny bent down and pushed them into a messy pile and dropped the…

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  • Friend of Bill

    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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  • Cal Lewis

    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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  • C…Cal Lewis

    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…Meet Bob

    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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  • A to Z 2018

    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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  • F is for finished

    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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  • Eeeek!

    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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  • C is for Challenge

    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…

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