by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
My brother Blake joined Zoe and me at the mail center for lunch yesterday. Blake’s birthday is next week, but he has an all-day meeting on the actual day so we celebrated a few days early. We decided to get takeout from O’Leary’s next door, and Thursday...
by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
This note has been waiting for me to catch up to it for three weeks. Back near the end of January, on a day so snowy, icy, and generally yucky that Debbie and Patti stayed home and I brought Zoe with me to the mail center (isn’t that a long-winded way of saying...
by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
There was a small stack of mail on my desk when I got back to work, and I finally had a chance to go through it yesterday afternoon. One of the cards was from a familiar face . . . You might remember Barbara Walborn from three years ago when her husband Tom gave...
by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am back at work today, but I won’t kid you – to paraphrase W.C. Fields, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Florida.” Since I’m not, on Saturday evening I planned the next best thing – a trip to Arizona to see my parents in about five weeks. I’ll go hiking...
by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
We are home. You haven’t truly experienced a drive to and from Florida until you’ve made the trip in a box truck – just ask Ryan. I have a hydraulic driver’s seat, so I don’t endure the bumps and jolts of the interstate like someone on the passenger...
by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
It is the rarest of occasions when the pace of my life slows down. I can still remember the first time Ryan realized that I am a different person when I am on vacation and the rush of work and responsibilities of home aren’t pressing on me. Since I travel...
