GPS and the Push

When it’s 2 in the morning already, and you’re laboring to make it to the destination that the new GPS unit you bought before the trip told you an hour ago is 30 miles of driving away, and all you … Continue reading

two treadmills

I was thinking about children yesterday. We have a new baby. I was thinking about how children change your life. When we had our first child, we were a young married couple. Actually, Jenny was younger than me then by … Continue reading

the static frame

Mondays are hard for me sometimes. I have to go back to work after a short weekend of not going to work. That is what makes Mondays hard for me. (It’s at this point that you might think that there … Continue reading

weary travellers

I don’t get a lot of time off from my job. Even when I was only working for the Post Office part-time as a substitute driver, it was awkward to get big chunks of my life open to do important … Continue reading

turning pages

I like feeling the grass on my bare feet when I walk in the summer. I like feeling rain before I duck under cover. I like actually turning pages in a book. I love books…and I really appreciate holding a … Continue reading

give it away, give it away, give it away….now

  It’s raining this morning. That means that I’ll get to give my new thrift store Goretex a workout today…see if the reason someone donated it is that it leaks…and not just because it’s purple. I watched a show about … Continue reading

be careful what you pray for, you just might….

I remember sitting with some classmates in George Alexander’s Social Studies class when I was in the eighth grade. I don’t remember why we were all talking…maybe we’d finished our work, I don’t really remember. Maybe we were just talking. … Continue reading

lip service compassion

I must be desperate to be entertained…or confused…or infuriated. I listened to talk radio again yesterday on the route. Maybe I just needed something to take my mind off the cold, I don’t really know….but for the 5 hours I … Continue reading

it doesn’t feel much colder when it passes really cold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs56_GqTyIQ I get the temperature in the morning off my computer. I don’t mean that I feel the computer to check how cold it is in the room….I mean that I have a program on the computer that tells me … Continue reading

the bounce back

Our daughter ran cross-country and track the year before she started high school. From what I could tell, she had a good time doing it. At that point in my postal career, I may have still been a relief driver…so … Continue reading