With Thanksgiving on the horizon, many people have asked me what I am thankful for in the last year. My glib replay is the title of this article. I know it seems like I'm being a whiny little bitch right now but bear with me, it does get better. It's not that I have nothing to be thankful for, I'm still healthy and neither my family or anyone I know has lost a family member to COVID. I have a roof over my head in a house that, all though dated, has good bones and is slowly but surely becoming "our" home. All my bills are paid on time and both Sue and I have good paying jobs which we actually do enjoy and like...most days. I am just feeling stressed and pushed to the limit by circumstances that I can not control, for example this week alone I will have worked ten days straight often putting in a minimum of twelve hours a day for the majority of those days. When I was a younger man working for an engineering firm in Charlotte, NC I would not h
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.