It was Saturday morning during the summer and I had just finished putting the rubber bands around all of the newspapers I had to deliver on my paper-route. I shoved the newspapers into my big canvas pouch that read “Columbus Dispatch” in big neon orange colors and headed out the door. My dogs, Lady and Muttly stood right by the door dancing and prancing around. They loved accompanying me on…
I was in the Army for a short time. While I was in basic training at least 5 privates under the age of 21 either died or committed suicide. Two of them collapsed from being pushed too hard to run and just keeled over. One stabbed himself by ramming a pencil up into his nasal passage. Another hung himself with a shoe string and I forgot how the other died.…
I was sitting in my cubicle clicking away on my dusty old keyboard when the thought of how much I hated my job ran through my head one more time. Every morning when my alarm went off I continued to press the snooze button at least six times before I crawled out of bed. The thought of sitting in a confined area inside a cold building with no windows and…
This Fourth of July I decided to do something I rarely do. My close neighbors, a very nice, older Jamaican couple always ask me come by and join them whenever they have a cookout or family get-together, so I decided to take them up on their offer. I usually don’t join them because I’m not what you would consider a very social person and their events usually consist of a…
I went on MySpace to maintain my page as I typically do on any given Monday or Tuesday evening. I go to my “friend’s request” link and I proceed to click on the “select all” button at the bottom of the page. This day was not unlike any other Monday or Tuesday and I probably had perhaps 7 to 8 pages of friend requests. When I state this fact, I…
