Monthly Archives: April 2012

The “big box” where I work has quite an assortment of customers of other nationalities in its aisles and we’re sort of discouraged from making any ethnic or cultural generalizations …. and with good reason I’m sure . However …. … Continue reading →

“ Don’t ya think you were over paid ? ” That’s what my Father asked me recently in reference to what I made as a bricklayer in Boston back in the 1990’s. And so I looked back at that time … Continue reading →

“Don’t confuse your travel agent with God ”. That’s what an American author named Kenneth R. Morgan wrote quite some time ago and I paid little heed to Kenneth’s advice that day when I confronted a travel agent in Adelaide with … Continue reading →

   Those who know me may well have some difficulty grasping the concept of what I’m about to say but say it I must. Once in a while…and a rare while it may be…. I do shut up from my … Continue reading →

I remember my first circus as a very young boy and I remember it as a genuine classic Big Top Ringling three ringer. Fact is that it may not have been but that’s how I remember it and that‘s the … Continue reading →

Its Friday the thirteenth and as always it brought a memory of eight years ago when on this day our home was wrecked by Hurricane Charlie. This Friday the thirteenth brought forth yet another memory as I collected the change … Continue reading →

There is no doubt in my wife’s mind that I suffer deafness. She can come up with no other reason that might explain why I might perpetually ask her to repeat what she has just said. The fact is that … Continue reading →

She was built of marine ply and at some point a long time previous someone had done a fair job of disguising her age with a fiber glass coating. This made her 17 ft. cuddy cabined hull one heavy beast … Continue reading →