Tag: Art
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Anne – Part 19 – Some Early Signs of the Inevitable (?) End – Memoir Continued
Some Early Signs of the Inevitable(?) End A few months into my stint at Kinetico, Anne was promoted to Head Editor of SWE Magazine. She also wanted to earn more and applied for an editorial position at Case Western Reserve University that came to her attention through those same Buddhist friends who had lent her…
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Anne – Part 18 – End of a Nearly 20-Year Relationship – Memoir Continued
End of a Nearly 20-Year Relationship On Valentine’s Day of ‘96, we went out for a ‘Valentines’ dinner, just she and I. We went to NightTown in Cleveland Hts. (I think). It was very nice, drinks good food and soft jazz piano. I enjoyed it and thought she did, too. But when we got home,…
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Anne – Part 17 – Kinetico – Shaky Paradise
Kinetico Fortunately, I did find a full-time job as a technical writer after a few months of part-time jobs. I was hired by Kinetico in Newbury, Ohio, to write proposals and manuals for their Reverse Osmosis and other filtered water systems, which they manufactured on the site. It was a 45-minute drive to and from…
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Listen
Listen I hope you will listenTo the songs inside yourselfNot be led by someone elseAbout the good life you can haveYes, I hope you will listenThere truly is a lessonIn the earth, the starsThe moon and the sunPotential is growingMastery is knowingHow to listen to yourself –LE
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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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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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