• Patience

    Patience

    What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

    With America

    Sit idling in a car for ten minutes for a five dollar cup of coffee.

    The irate motorist behind me getting pissed of for me following the rules of bike lanes.

    Little nuances that do not matter as we spend a day with the grandchildren

  • The Librarian

    The Librarian

    Who are the biggest influences in your life?

    My grandmother went to work after my grandfather died. She became a librarian. She brought home books and read to me all the time.

    I would stop in and visit all the time. I learned so much from her.

    I am brief here as I am with family for the holidays. She would be proud.

  • Didn’t Realize There Would Be A Pop Quiz

    Share what you know about the year you were born.

    The math is difficult for me as my little brother was born 11 months later.

    That seems impossible to me.

    My mom smoked Raleigh filters and my Dad Chesterfields.

    I drank a lot to pass the time, it was a formula.

    My Dad worked at a pretzel factory and snuck off to the bar often.

    There were frequent thunderstorms and plenty of lightning bugs.

    My parents bought potato chips at the beer distributor.

    I seemed happy and wore cloth diapers.

    Ironically or maybe as a precaution, the both control pill was invented.

  • Confederacy of Dunces

    Confederacy of Dunces

    Are you a good judge of character?

    The city of Vancouver has filed suit against BNSF after the railroad put dozens of large boulders along the sidewalks adjacent to three of its properties on West 11th Street in downtown.

    Have you ever as a kid built a little city using legos, matchboxes, and trees cut out of colored cardboard. And of course you had a train set with a BNSF locomotive. Throw in some small rocks from the yard where you want to put the train set. But you you are a kid still with a semi developed brain, so you dump the rocks on eleventh street in the city you just built.