• F is for Fifties (Mine, Not the Decade)

    F is for Fifties (Mine, Not the Decade)

    I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is F. Also TBT. I turned 50 last year. This was me on my 50th birthday, taking a break from shoveling. I probably spent a good chunk of that day muttering “I’m too old for this crap.” The truth is, for…

  • E is for Eating Out

    E is for Eating Out

    I’m doing this Blogging A to Z thing. Today is E.  Eating out – really stretching for this one. :) My daughter’s got the week off from school, so we got together for dinner tonight. We normally spend weekends together, and spend a lot of that time running around doing things…

  • D is for Driving Home

    D is for Driving Home

    “Take the left lane to keep right.” Wait, what…?

  • C is for Coffee

    C is for Coffee

      So I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing for the month of April. I get Sundays off. Day 3 – C. “Hey, Steve, how do yo like your coffee?” “Black, like I like…” OK, not going there. I was 15 or 16 when I started drinking coffee. Mountain Dew…

  • B is for Baking

    B is for Baking

    Blogging A to Z (link over on the left). Day 2 – B.   I’ve always cooked, and I’m pretty good at it. Working in food service all through high school and college, you pick up a few things. So, in my kitchen, recipes are suggestions, not instructions. I rarely baked,…

  • A is for About me

    A is for About me

    Lately I’ve been feeling the need for some sort of creative outlet not connected to my job. And today I saw on Facebook that my sister-in-law, who is pretty much always engaged in something creative, was doing this A to Z Blogging Challenge. (There’s a link over on the left.) Long story…

  • How it all started

    In the fall of 1983, I started college as an engineering student. Along with the core science courses – Physics, Calculus, and Chemistry – we all had to take an English class. I forget the actual title, but essentially it was composition and literature, AKA readin’ and writin’. This class…