StraightAhead

Man, after 16 days off on vacation, who wants to come back to work, back to the old grind?  Not me.  I must be getting really close to wanting to retire, to see the value of being lazy and doing just what I want to every day.  Of course that retirment dream isn’t the way [...]

I was in Galveston day before yesterday.  I love going down there to get my dose of Florida you might say.  I was born in the panhandle of Florida and moved away from there when I was about 3 to Tennessee.  My family took vacations back to the Pensacola area quite often when I was [...]

I sent this letter to the editor at the Houston Chronicle.  Don’t know if it will ever make the paper or not.  It’s probably more than 250 words , but i sent it anyway. ” I’ve been a professional fireman for 34 years or so.  I was on the Memphis Tn. Fire Dept for 8 [...]

I was only in the 7th grade but I was in the 9th grade band at Colonial Jr. High.  I had lived in Humboldt Tn before moving to Memphis and I had started band in the 5th grade, whereas, at Colonial, they started in the 7th grade.  I was a bit of an oddity, you [...]