Sentimental Journeys

#920719

September 21, 2017 at 7:41pm

Can anything be worth getting a busted lip over? Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check out . ... [Read more]

#920637

September 4, 2020 at 12:31am

How becoming temporarily blind due to being nosy can result in making a new friend... Mary Fayra Kathleen (nee:Jobe) Williams (Aunt Kate to me) was my mom's younger sister and the youngest of seven (counting her oldest brothe... [Read more]

#919868

September 6, 2017 at 4:47am

How I ended up with a whole bunch of prison pen-pals back when I was in college. Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check out . ... [Read more]

#919751

September 3, 2017 at 8:33pm

1969 fades into 1970 and liking turns into loving with all of the delightful goofiness that goes with it...Hey! What can I say!?!...Anyway, this is a story about such a time... Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#919739

September 3, 2017 at 6:36pm

This was a year where a lot of things -- both good and bad; happy and sad -- were happening, both in my own life and in the wider world out there. As Bob Dylan tunefully informed us...the times they were a'changin'... St... [Read more]

#919685

September 9, 2017 at 1:57pm

This story from my college days first appeared in {x-link:https://allpoetry.com/poems}AllPoetry{/x-link} (which actually isn't limited to the publishing of poetry and nothing else) and can still be found there by going {x-link:https://allpo... [Read more]

#919637

September 2, 2017 at 6:43pm

This was the year that I was twitterpatedly-in-love and making promises that I didn't keep as I had planned to. Even so, it was all good...for the most part, anyway... Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#918987

September 2, 2017 at 6:45pm

Did I win the battle but lose the war? or Did I actually end up winning BOTH the battle and the war? ... Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check ... [Read more]

#918459

September 2, 2017 at 6:46pm

When I became homeless in the late summer of 2013, I grabbed up as much as I could -- and still don't know for sure what all I was able to save and what got left behind... Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#918344

September 2, 2017 at 6:47pm

The guy seated at a table near mine was pleasant and easy-on-the-eyes -- but he was about to reveal a part of himself to me that might make me see him in a different light... Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#918343

September 2, 2017 at 6:48pm

How I finally landed in Cyberspace three months and a few days before my 46th birthday -- including being in a minor wreck just a day later! -- and a thumbnail sketch of my journey on The Information Superhighway after that...In short, it'... [Read more]

#918075

September 2, 2017 at 6:50pm

Sharing here what I wrote about my amazing great-grandma and her family back in January of 1990. Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check out .... [Read more]

#918033

September 2, 2017 at 6:53pm

When I was little, I wanted to be a waitress and a movie star. Read all about it here!!! Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check out . ... [Read more]

#918017

September 2, 2017 at 6:53pm

In loving memory of my maternal grandma, Fayra Katharena (nee:Chambers) Jobe -- who passed away almost a decade before I was born but someone I've gotten to know and love by hearing her kids and other loved ones talking about her, reading h... [Read more]

#918013

September 2, 2017 at 6:54pm

I invented this controversial vaporizer in Room 311 of what was then called Krannert Hall but is now called Cravens Hall. This was on the campus of what was then called Indiana Central College but is now called University of Indianapolis / UIN... [Read more]

#917995

September 2, 2017 at 6:55pm

The strange title to this entry is a way to sum up in 60 characters or less (I used 58 of my limit) a Sunday back in the late summer/early autumn of 1962 when I was 9 for a few more weeks and in fourth grade at Fall Creek Heights Elementary. ... [Read more]

#917992

September 2, 2017 at 6:56pm

Sometimes, I coin words/phrases, and this just happens to be one of my originals...or IS it!?! That depends on whether or not anybody else said it before 1962. Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#917990

September 2, 2017 at 6:57pm

The day Uncle Dick's dry wit got me so cracked up that I not only couldn't stop laughing back then but, also, thinking about it will even get me laughing over 50 years later. Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]

#917986

September 2, 2017 at 6:58pm

Question: What do country music and the genre of nostalgia have in common? Answer: The fact that one should never be surprised to find trains here and there in the mix. For example, here's a case of where both folk-singing (which ... [Read more]

#917980

September 2, 2017 at 7:01pm

How somebody becomes a movie star -- as seen through the eyes of a four-year old... Story will appear here when finished... Thank you for reading!!! Please check out . ... [Read more]

#917099

May 26, 2020 at 10:17am

Back in 1935, my maternal grandma, Fayra Katharina (nee: Chambers) Jobe, got fed up when she and her family got taken advantage of by a rich-and-powerful family in their community; decided to do something about it; and almost ended up going to j... [Read more]

#914017

September 2, 2017 at 7:03pm

This story is now under construction. When it's written, it will be one of the most romantic and beautiful love stories you've ever read -- and it isn't fiction!!! Story will appear here when finished... ... [Read more]