My first job was working at a dollar store. I have to say that it was an excellent starting job. It taught me the importance of hard work, the concept of nepotism, and that it was a good idea to pretend to be a smoker so that you get the extra breaks. I’m only half-joking. […]
Author: Alan
I want to move by the beach
Living by the ocean has been a dream of mine for a long time. I ended up having to travel to and live in a town up in the mountains that is almost always cold and where it snows for half the year. I could not ignore the career opportunity that led me to this […]
There was no entrance into the furnace room.
I had just moved into my new apartment, and I was so happy to finally beyond my own. For 22 years I lived with my parents, but now I was graduated from college and had a good job. I knew it was time to have an apartment of my own. My apartment turned out to […]
How long before fall arrives?
We were only three days into the school year, when my daughter came home complaining about the heat in school. She plopped her backside down onto a chair, dropped her bookbag onto the floor, and looked like the last Rosa summer. She complained and asked me how long before fall arrives? I laughed and told […]
The lights were flickering, and I knew we would lose power.
At the first sign of power being offer more than an hour, my husband called a hotel that was within a few miles of home During the summer we often have pop-up thunderstorms in our area. The heat and humidity combined, and it is the perfect situation for pop-up thunderstorms and/or tornado watches. For two […]