Tag: family
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What are My Principles?
An excerpt from A Geek’s Progress: When I was 11 years old and getting my hair cut, I had an interesting revelation. The barber shop was set up with large mirrors on opposite sides of the narrow room. Being bored, I noticed a reflection of the mirror behind me in the corner of the mirror…
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King of Clubs
This is the third chapter of Sharon’s Playing to an Inside Straight book that she never finished about her health journey . See the other entries in the category Sharon. KING OF CLUBS I thought that the King of Clubs would be a good card to represent what we have to pay homage to or…
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A Systems Engineer in the Hospital
I haven’t posted anything for a month or so, and there’s a reason for that as I explain below. Life is slowly getting back to normal…, well except for all that extra time it takes to watch the hit ’em where they ain’t Padres line drive their way to the World Series (fingers crossed). First,…
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Tales of Sweet Melissa
My wife and I have always named our cars. My first car, a white 60 Chevy BelAir—one of those with tail fins—was named Whiskey, and her first car, a giant burgundy Olds 88 was named Gypsy. We were both poor in those days, and when our old cars died one after the other, my father…
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Adventures in Job-Shopping
If you’ve read my posts A Gringo’s Christmas and Arriving in California, you have some hint about the adventures and misadventures of my father that may parallel the stories of many of his generation. My father was born during the twenties and, like most of his contemporaries, served in WWII although, due to circumstances way…
Musings of a Restless Mind 