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WITH OPEN ARMS
That’s the thing about this city… she’s a lady; she cries, and a tempest rages over the spiring buildings; she beams, as bright as neon in the dark of night; she breathes like a zephyr in the blended air. And here’s the thing… she’s my lady.I'd felt dragged through the mud, dumped in the gutter and left for dead, so I’d turned my back on her, but I couldn’t stay away. No matter how far away from her I was, she was prickly in my head, a raging fire in my heart.Trembling as I approached her, my dry, flaming skin absorbed the sweat welling up on my body. What would she say to me? Would she force ...
Rocky Mountain High
Maybe I should have taken a bus.When I got on this train there were only seven people in the car. Now, as we are all waiting for it to depart the depot, every seat seems to be taken and you cannot even hear yourself think.So what am I doing in thisw noisebox? I am beginning to ask myself that same question.After fifty-seven years with the same company I had finally reached that magical old age that everyone works hard to reach. Friday had been my last day. The office had thrown me quite a party. So good that it made me think they were glad to see me go. Anyway, instead of the normal...
North To Alaska-Or Not
Free food has my total attention whenever or wherever. And it did when AAA travel invited me to an evening presentation on Alaska.My parents had been there twice so with nothingwww.onedoor.cc else to do I went to the presentation and the free food.A trio of speakers painted a picture of our fifty-ninth state that was hard to resist. Starting with a cruise ship where there were several places where they would dock and the passengers would then be treated to various land excersions as they had pruchased. The main port that was used was at Skagway, a town so small that there is no Walmart. Four or fiv...
Hank Sampson's Wager
Hank Sampson’s Wager—George DavisHank Sampson has been going to the racetrack two or three nights a week for the last seven years and, as he says, ‘I break even’Hank can ill-afford to spend the money on the ponies. He goes, he says, ‘to make extra money to buy a house. He’s rented from Olive Pearson for the last forty-one years. Hank has never missed paying his rent on time until now.“I’m sorry, Olive. I’ll get the money to you by…the end of the week.” “Hank, you need to stop your gambling. Don’t you know? Gambling is a vice, and very few people make a living betting their paychecks.” “I know,...