Category: Art
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Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies – 1993
Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies 1993 About a year into my adventure in technical writing, my maternal grandmother died. She was 98. She had fallen and broken a hip. She had a hip replacement. I was told that she came out of the surgery fine. but after a few days in recovery, quit…
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Anne – Part 14 – Even More Complications – Memoir Continued
Our Life Got Even More Complicated It got complicated for everyone. These were the Reagan and Bush Sr. years, with their combinations of union busting and suppression (and corruption) and good jobs leaving the country in troves, and then even faster during the Clinton years, soon to follow. There were few teaching positions open anywhere…
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Winter’s In The Air
Winter’s In The Air now the leaves have fallenthey’re lying on the groundautumn’s many colored blankethas turned a brittle brown and now we wait for winterwearing his hoary crownhe steals our body’s heatand chills us to the bone his arrival brings the holidaysto warm our hearts againthe solstice and the new yearjoys to tide us…
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Anne – Part 13 – Caitlin and Dylan – Memoir Continued
Citlin and Dylan are Born During my last year at Hiram, Anne became pregnant. She had decided that Sean needed a playmate. Twins should not have been surprising. There were twins on both Anne’s and my sides of the family. Hers were cousins. Mine were an aunt and uncle. But it still caught us by…
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Anne – Part 12 – Full-time College
Full-time at Hiram College I started going to Hiram on the weekends prior to being sent to Chicago. Eaton was paying my tuition as long as I passed my courses. Of course, after they fired me, that stopped. So, I took my unemployment and what savings I had and started going to school at Hiram…
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Anne – Part 11 – Fired By Airflex – Memoir Continued
Fired By Airflex One of the inspectors I was training, Ron, wasn’t picking it up fast enough to suit John, who felt entitled to belittle him every time he walked by the CMM on his way to his office. He was constantly complaining that the work wasn’t getting done as fast as he’d hoped, based…
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Anne – Part 10 – Problems In Paradise
Problems in Paradise Some troubling incidents started to present themselves early in the marriage. Anne wanted to handle our finances, and that was fine with me. So, we had joint checking and savings accounts. We both put our paychecks into the checking account and had 10% moved to the savings account monthly. The problems started…
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Anne – Part 9 – Work Sends Me to Chicago to Learn HP Basic – Memoir Continued
Work Sends Me to Chicago to learn HP Basic Airflex bought a computer controlled coordinate measuring machine that automatically measured points on objects in cartesian space. As I recall, it was made by Ferranti. The programs to run the machine were coded in Hewlett Packard’s Basic programming language. For whatever reason, the head of our…
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Anne – Part 8 – Sean is Born – Memoir Continued
Sean is Born During this time, Anne became pregnant with our first. My insurance covered the delivery. Unlike Lynn, Anne wanted a doctor to do the delivery, though I was in the delivery room with her, holding her hand through the whole ordeal. She went into labor in the afternoon one day in early October…
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Poetry In Motion
Arabian Dance AcroBuoBallet This is pure ellagance and symytry, audio, and visual poetry.
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