Rain

It’s 3:40 pm and I’m in Hemingway’s.  The $1.50 big draft special is Shock Top.  It’s not bad.  It’s great for $1.50.  I take off my jacket but leave on my long shoreman’s cloth cap, muffler and hoodie and it feels good.  St. Joe’s and Texas play basketball on two of the flat screen TVs.  [...]

Lunch Break

Lunch break is almost over here at the employment and training center in Braddock.  I downloaded some useful documents from the US Census Bureau and I’ll be filling out the documents and going over the mock test over the Thanksgiving break.  I had a candy bar for lunch.  I must really be under intense stress [...]

Break Time

It’s break time at the employment and training center here in Braddock.  Man, it’s freezing in this break room; but I’m eating healthy: a banana and a small tomato washed down with a small plastic bottle of water, water from the tap.
The majority of the class will return to Room 210 to finish giving their Power Point [...]

Creative Laziness

Yes, I’ve become a lazy writer.  No, that’s not true.  I post something on this blog at least once every day.  I’ve become a lazy flash fiction writer.  Good flash fiction is so difficult to write.  And although I have enough stories stockpiled from a more creative period of my life (enough stories to post [...]

A Short Week

It’ll be a short week at the employment and training center.  Today and Tuesday will be regular days but Wednesday is the party and of course we have Thursday and Friday off.  I still don’t know what to bring to the party.  Maybe a couple of pound cakes from the Shure Save supermarket in Bloomfield, [...]