A Labor Day Request

Happy Labor Day weekend! I hope you’re enjoying your holiday. This is a day I usually pen some philosophical thoughts on working, but today I’d like to ask for your help in my own work. As I’ve mentioned here, I’m … Read more…

Cleaning House

Recently I helped my daughter clean up the bedroom occupied by my 8 and 11-year-old grandsons.  I considered donning tyvek overalls and putting Vicks on my upper lip, as they do in the forensic shows on television, but when I got there it really wasn’t too bad.  Smelled a bit of small boy feet, but mainly there were layers upon layers of stuff, wall to wall.  As we worked, we joked that we felt like archeologists, unearthing layers of a civilization.

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