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One of the more popular expressions knocked around by people in my age group (OLD!!) is “used to be.”
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In a few weeks baseball’s Spring Training is supposed to start. There’s a labor dispute that may prevent that but, regardless, in February my mind turns to baseball. It’s in my DNA .Not because I played it well but because baseball appeals to me.
Read moreSometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck. I learned that the USS Lexington crew (1,100 of them) was the worse infected crew in the 7 fleet. That long line of sailors were waiting for medical attention for their recently caught VD. I went up to my workstation and learned all about it. Not any of my guys were infected. In fact, it was all on the deck divisions and some of our so called “air dales” who had gone ashore and partaken of the shore delights they should have avoided.
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Andy is a typical early riser. Meaning he is usually up, dressed and sitting at the desk in his office by around seven every morning. Which causes him to see the sun began to filter cautiously thru the blinds and get stronger as morning passes. One such morning, he glanced at the window and thought, “Huh, sure seems awfully hazy and cloudy to be the gorgeous day the weatherman predicted. Hopefully, maybe those clouds will get burned off by the sun, ‘cause we sure need it today.”
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One of my all time favorite Christmas movies is “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Dayna and I watch it every December. One of my favorite quotes from the movie is when Clarence says “one man’s life touches so many others, when he’s not there it leaves an awfully big hole.”
Read moreIt’s been six years since I completed my 57 and final year as a teacher and I’ll be honest with you, in many ways I am glad that I am not having to face the classroom (and out of classroom) challenges that teachers are facing in this topsy-turvy year of the COVID and the situations it creates.
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