While reading through my journal this afternoon I came across some thoughts I had a couple of years ago that I thought may be of interest to my readers. This conversation with myself took place in September 2007, shortly before I would learn that my father had stage 3 lung cancer. It deals with my [...]
Oct
28
2009
28
2009
Oct
14
2009
14
2009
Dark Days
There’s an old saying that “it is after the storm that the roses bloom”; good, I should have a vase-full of big red ones real soon. An eventuality that has been looming for over a year is taking place. We were in serious financial straits last year so in order to stay afloat we cashed [...]
Oct
9
2009
9
2009
Outta Work
On February 9, 2009, I became yet another casualty of the economic downturn. I’d sold Hondas at the same store for 13 years and on that morning I found myself standing in front of my chicken-shit sales manager and the guy he had to ask for help doing the hatchet job. Frankly, it’s not like [...]