When people hear that I work for a family business, they always assume that I sit around all day and do nothing. They think that I am paid extremely well simply for being born into the right circumstances. I understand why people make that assumption, but they’re dead wrong about it. In fact, I would […]
Once upon a time there was a little boy who hated school. That boy was me, from the very first day I went to elementary school, until my very last day of high school, I never cared for it. My dad explained it to me this way — he worked, my mom took care of […]
As a teenager I spent most of my time holed up in the attic, playing video games and working on bizarre art projects. I was an emo kid, very sensitive, but I also had legit problems beyond being delicate. I had some breathing issues, going back to when I was a baby, so during the […]
My sister was always the smart one, when it came to school. She was a year older than me, and although we got along better than most siblings, she still irritated me with her “teacher’s pet” status at the local schools. No matter what teacher I had, they always said the same thing, “you’re Jennifer’s […]
He won’t even let some family members into his collection room My father has always been a huge collector of baseball cards, football cards, comic books, and other things of tremendous value. He has the most amazing collection and he keeps everything in a special collection room that he has. He has all kinds of […]
It was so sad when my uncle got into a terrible accident which caused him to fall into a coma. He has been in the hospital for years being taken care of. It is up to my father to decide what happens to my uncle. He strongly believes that he will come out of the […]
This past winter, there was this cat that kept coming up to our backdoor. My wife decided to feed the cat, but I was saying not to let the cat inside. I thought the cat might be infested with fleas or have some kind of disease. We didn’t know where that cat had been. My […]
My hometown football team has been doing awesome since we got this very skilled quarterback. More recently, the quarterback was accused of taking performance enhancing drugs to improve his game. He actually was investigated for this and it turned out not to be the case. He was actually taking multiple vitamins and also niacin. He […]
Every few months when I have the chance I like to fly back home to where I am from to visit my mother and father. Now that my parents are getting older I need more help managing more of the simpler day-to-day tasks, I feel much more inclined to make these visits more frequent than […]
I’m kind of torn between the TPO roofing or the EPDM roofing. I fell really bad for my competitor. He lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise when his commercial roof collapsed. I don’t know if he will ever be able to recover from that. Not that it would be any skin off of […]