I was a military brat. My mom and us kids followed my dad to every military base they assigned him to. By the time I was 14, I had been to countries that most people never even dream of. I attended 15 different high schools before graduation. Was much younger, I enjoyed traveling all over, […]
Author: Sally
The football game didn’t stop for anything.
When my son was in high school, he wanted to go out for football. He had talked about football since he was a little kid, and he was as excited now as he was then. I had heard a lot about high school boys getting concussions playing football, and how it ruined their life when […]
I had no concerns about the upcoming storm.
My entire family was panicking over the upcoming storm. They were calling for drifting snow and extremely low temperatures. The storm was to start out as freezing rain and end as freezing rain with up to two feet of snow in between. Everyone knew what this kind of storm could do to their electricity. Fallen […]
I don’t think winter is nearly as bad as summer.
Over the years, I have worked in three HVAC companies in different parts of the country. My wife is in the military, and we move to wherever she is stationed. Being an HVAC technician makes it easy to get a job, but the weather is never the same. I have decided, however, that I like […]
He came running out of the house in shorts.
I was taking my trash out to the sidewalk last week, when my neighbor came running out of the house in shorts. It was eighteen degrees at 6 in the morning, and he had shorts on. I thought he may have awakened and remembered he had to put the trash out. I know several people […]