Alex Haley, a Writer & Speaker Who with Words Painted Pictures I Remember to this Day For most of my 31 years working for the IRS, my job, which I loved, was managing, promoting, and coordinating the public outreach and education programs for the IRS, a one-of-a-kind position within each IRS...
A Treasure Intangible – The Name of a Beautiful Little Baby Boy I have a variety of little physical treasures, little things worthless to practically everyone else, that sit on the little two drawer chest in my study. One, the red glazed ashtray that I made in kindergarten, my first ever...
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436965 Second Daughter – 10/15/20 …and at first, when he was just a baby, there was not a real difference between him and his older sister, a baby is a baby…but still there was a difference…she could sense it, she could see it…yes,...
“Dad, you are not getting any younger.” My youngest daughter is what I have often described as a divine or inspired nag concerning my writing. Everyone should be so blessed to have such a loving, direct, and insistent family member or friend in their life. And of late, with my...
“Dad, you need to write for your audience. You need to figure that out. Have you been thinking about who your audience is since we last had this same conversation?” “Yes, I thought about your question. It was a good question. It made me think a lot.” “Ok, good. So,...
Written: Monday, December 3, 2018 We, my wife and I, put up the Christmas tree and the outside lights on Saturday. On Sunday, after the 90th birthday celebration of the woman I consider my second mother, my wife continued putting out and arranging the Christmas decorations and now the house...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437672 Oldest Daughter – 05/10/21 …the walk along the harbor in the still cool misty air of the morning was full of peace and…life, for the work of the harbor, small group of fishermen rowing out to their fishing boat, the rhythm of the oars dipping...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435839 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 05/17/21 …well, so what if she lives in Oklahoma City… Oh, it just chafes her butt when they say “Oklahoma City” like it was some sort of disease. Just chafes her butt and she downright told them so. And...