Students have = asked me (their professor) about jobs with good wages or benefits, so I = suggested:   **Window = Washers clear thousands.   **Naval = Officers get commissions.   **Bakers seem = to be rolling in dough.   **Gas Station = Attendants spend all day pumping it in.…

A friend = bought a reel [pun] fishing boat and wanted a “cool” name = that would set it apart from the others at the marina.  Boats I = could afford (14’ aluminum fishing boat) just had the required = state license number.  No fancy-pants name. But here were my…

I said: = “Let me walk in the fields.”He said: “No, walk in = the town.”I said: “There are no flowers = there.”He said: “No flowers, but a crown.” =   I said: = “But the skies are black;There is nothing but noise and = din.”And He wept as He…

Wayne I. shared, “I sent my hearing aids in for = repair several weeks ago. I haven’t heard anything = since.”   Ann S confided, “The first three miles of a 5K run = are the hardest.”   Ken M said, “I gave my coworker a ‘Get Better = Soon‘…

An English professor wrote the following on the board = – “A woman without her man is nothing” –  and = asked the class to punctuate it correctly.   All of the = male students wrote, “A woman, without her man, is = nothing.”   All the = female students…

Inspecting = mirrors is a job I could really see myself = doing.   I focused on = being a photographer, but nothing ever = developed.   I just lost my = job as a psychic, but I didn’t see that = coming.   I quit my job = working…

I love fishing. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a = professional fisherman when I grew up.  Dad said no; fishing = didn’t bring in enough net income.  He did give me a replica = fisherman’s knife, made to scale.   A friend = asked for the…

[Odd = perspectives on growing older collected over the past = year] I don’t = do drugs anymore. At my age I get the same effect just standing = up.   We don’t = stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop = playing.   You’re…

A group of = Geography students studied the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. At = the end of that section, the students were asked to list what they = considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World = TODAY.   Though there = was some disagreement, the following…

In 1973 we = were anxiously awaiting the birth of our first child, now 13 days past = due.  For all this time people had wondered where we were having a = boy or a girl.  [Note: For those too young to understand how it was = in the “Dark…

[A little more = reason to smile in dark times of Covid and = anarchy]   Danielle S = complained, “You said everything would be back to normal by = June.  Julyed.”   Ken H related, “I’m deeply disturbed.by how = many seem to see washing their hands as a…

A friend said, = “We homeschooled our kids throughout Jr and Sr High School, = watching them learn to love history, English, science, literature and a = host of electives.   Like many, my = daughter struggled with math. She believed the devil was behind the evil = of exchanging…

Many are = wondering IF there will be an NFL Football season.=C2=A0 Others wonder = if a team may simply fold without massive income from TV/Ticket sales on = which financial commitments were made.=C2=A0 So here are a = dozen US cities awarded NFL teams, all of which folded between…