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Welcome to the new home of the Serendipity Journal. It has been a loooong time since I last posted. Sorry. Initially, my posting delay occurred because I was working to set up this new website. Despite my best research efforts, my first experience into domain names and hosting services had more than a couple of [...]
Image titled “I want my mommy” by anyjazz65 My wife Carol has an amazing affinity for animals of all kinds. Our house is a virtual Noah’s ark of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other assorted, furry varmints. Each pet enjoys Carol’s special blend of care and attention. She has a natural ability to [...] I’ve worked for some fine people over the course of my career. One of the best was my old manager from my past employer, Chuck Reedy. I worked for Chuck for two years. He was a good manager, treating everyone with dignity and respect. He was dedicated, hard working, and pragmatic. Unfortunately, Chuck was laid-off in [...] I missed last week’s post. I’m in danger of missing this week’s as well. There’s so much to do… When I was laid-off in February, I didn’t anticipate how busy I would be in unemployment. In the last two weeks, I spent a day’s time applying for food stamps and almost two days reapplying for financial [...] "Graduation Cake Guy" image by CarbonNYC. Click image to see his entire photostream. Earlier this week, I heard a news report stating the last time the national unemployment rate was this bad was back in the early 1980’s. I graduated from college in 1983, at the height of the Reagan recession. I had no [...] It has now been a little over a week since the layoff. 300 people were let go over two days. One of them was my friend Brad, who used to work in the IT Department. The two of us immediately decided to form a support group. I don’t know how I would have gotten through the [...] Image by _gee_'s photostream. Click on the picture to see more images from him. The rumor mill was buzzing at work when I arrived there on Wednesday: layoffs were beginning again. Coworkers were gathered in small groups, speaking in hushed tones. As the morning dragged on, I overheard anxious and tearful clips of conversations [...] Image by Erika Mugglin, Heath, OH The chickens came home to roost this year. Back when I was in my twenties and my parents were approaching their fifties, I used to pick on them, in a good-natured way, whenever they couldn’t locate their reading glasses. During visits this past summer, both my father and my mother [...] Image by Joka2000 In the beginning, man believed that the earth was the center of the universe. The sun, the moon, and all the stars moved across the sky each day in a dance orchestrated by God, who looked down upon us from heaven beyond the stars. We were his chosen people, the ones He [...] |
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