My husband’s Dobermans used to curl up at his feet and put their heads in his lap. The dogs and I weren’t best buddies, but we got along until the morning I was running late for work. This was back in the days when I showed up at my interior landscape company by the time … Read more
Robert Hruzek has given us a challenge in this month’s What I Learned From … group writing project. Instead of giving us one subject, he’s given us enough topics to cover a year and a half. So I’m mashing it up with 18 topics in this post. I fell in love with both reading and … Read more
This month, the topic for the What I Learned From … Group Writing Project at Middle Zone Musings is What I Learned from Odd Jobs. This project is a two-for-one: High Callings Blogs is also hosting a similar group writing project, and this post is an entry in it as well. Today is the deadline … Read more
Veterans’ Day in 1979 started badly and got worse. A partner and I owned a plant and pottery store in a small strip center. My partner created handmade pottery in her home studio, and I managed the store. The day started with the sewer for the whole shopping center backing up in our toilet. As … Read more
When I worked for the state employment commission as part of the federal government’s War on Poverty in the 1970s, I encountered some … different, interesting , unusual … characters. Our clients were “hard-core unemployed;” some turned out to be unemployable. The program was a collaboration between several governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations contracted to … Read more
Robert Hruzek’s latest What I Learned From … group writing project is BLOGAPALOOZA! What I Learned From 2007. Rather than posting entries on their own blogs, participants e-mailed them to Robert, and he posted them at Middle Zone Musings. You’ll find a collection of fascinating entries, each featuring one post for every month the participant … Read more
As I said in the only other post I’ve ever written about sports, I am not a sports fan. I never intended to write about sports again, but Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings is very persuasive when it comes to getting entries in his What I Learned From … group writing projects. So here’s … Read more
Like most people, I’ve experienced plenty of rejection. Here are a few examples: When I was in college, I was engaged – for a short time – to a guy who told me when one of his buddies saw me for the first time, the buddy said, “That’s the ugliest woman … Read more
Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings has another “What I Learned From …” Group Writing Project underway. The topic this time is vacation: Hey, even if you’ve never taken a “formal” vacation, then surely you’ve taken a little “self” time, eh? Well, that qualifies as a vacation in my book. So go for it! I’m … Read more
Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings has instigated a group writing project. The rules for the project can be found at What I Learned from … The topic has to relate to the world of work. In my first two jobs after college, I worked for the government. First, I worked at a military base … Read more