So I graduated from high school with a job and a car already well in hand, and I began to look at a path forward in the world. I could not spend my life as a “maintenance man,” no matter how much satisfaction I […]

When the trailer was all packed up and hooked to the hauler, we followed it to Arizona. Mon & Dad had secured a lot in a “trailer estates” out past the edge of town – a place where you bought your lot and parked […]

After seven years in the sticks, in trailers (but on land we owned) our family bought our first real house. The place in the boonies was sold, and we moved into a nearly 1900 sq ft 4-bedroom, 2-bath stick-built home with an attached garage […]

Dad found a new job in California, and so we pulled up stakes and moved again. 18 months or so in Alabama, and then back on the road. We traveled in a sort of caravan to northern California and alighted in a small town […]

There were goats on our place behind the cabin. I don’t know where they came from, but I think they may have actually come with the property. We would take walks out back to see “the bluff” behind our place, which seemed to be […]

I’ve lived a long time, and plan to live a good while longer. To that end I try, to the best of my ability, to take care of my physical, mental and emotional self. The earliest memory I have is one of chasing my […]