Tag: Commentary
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Where They Never Say Your Name
Where They Never Say Your Name by Eilen Jewell I rode sixteen wheels all the waySixteen nights and lonely daysI’m going back, I wish I never cameI’m going someplace where they never say your name You kept me up all night with your coke and ginLeft me next morning and turned me inAnd that’s evil,…
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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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Manly BS
Manly BS I’m a manThat I amThe morning’s chillBut I don’t care See, my chest is bare‘Cause I’m a manWhen I catch that chillAs I surely will I won’t cryAs I die‘Caue I’m a manUnderstand? To prove myselfI’ll play the gameBear the pain ’causeI’m a man Bull Shit! –LE
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Green Serene – Dreams in Blue and Red
A couple of my old ones from the mid-eighties. Green Serene The color green is so sereneBrings to mind a summer dayResting in the shade ofYour favorite treeBe it oak or elmOr any kind you happen to see Reclining in cool grassesWatching golden raysTurn the canopy luminousThe filtered light an emerald hazeThat lulls me fast…
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The Sound of Silence
The Sound of SilencePaul Simon Hello darkness my old friendI’ve come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone‘Neath the halo of a street lampI turned…
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Anne – Part 7 – The Penton Problem – Memoir Continued
Anne Quits Penton We had moved to an apartment building across the street from the duplex half we rented from Dave and closer to the corner of Hampshire Rd and Euclid Heights BLVD. Anne had been having problems at Penton, where she had been working since shortly after we met. She was being harassed by…
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Memoir Continued – Image of Lynn – A Memory Impression
Image of Lynn I was looking through some of my old journals, reminiscing about my first attempt at married life. A strong image of Lynn came to me as I had known her early in our relationship. I’ve given all the photos I had of her to Kristen and Ian, and I haven’t seen her…
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Anne – Part 6 – Chris – Mom – Memoir Continued
Chris Graduates from College Around the time of our wedding, my brother, Chirs, graduated from Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH. We all went to his final show, where he performed his theater-mime. It was a very good performance. I don’t remember for sure, but I think his degree was a BFA in Theater Arts.…
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