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Uncle August

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Aging (& Retirement) Celebrations Family & Relatives Inspirational Retirement

When my great-uncle August was in his twenties, he left Iowa & went to study cake decorating at the National Baking Institute in Chicago. He learned everything from spun sugar decorations to ice sculpture. He went to school for 2 years & when he finished, he went back to Iowa & worked in the family … [Read More]

Pillar of Flame

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:22 PM in Children & Parenting Humor & Whimsy Inspirational

One summer night, we took my parents’ grill & we put in some sticks & paper & soaked the whole thing in lighter fluid & then my friend turned on his shortwave radio & we listened to some scientist in Houston who was saying where Apollo was at that moment & at the exact time … [Read More]

Kid Games

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Travel & Moving

One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that’s too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn’t playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him … [Read More]

Flight

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Friends & Neighbors Humor & Whimsy Inspirational Other Holidays Personal Growth Spiritual Winter Holidays

I knew a man in college who grew up in the inner city of Chicago & what he was doing in Iowa I never did figure out. But whenever he would see a jet trailing across the sky, he would stop everything he was doing & he would watch. Once, after a jet was gone … [Read More]

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