Posts by john

There’s something to be said for sitting in a dirty shop after a project has been completed.  No dread of the time and effort it will take to clean and put things in order, just a simple satisfaction that the job is complete, and a strange urgency to catalog and store in your brain, the…

A long time ago when I was but a boy of eighteen, I set out to conquer the world and learn about life.  “Join the Navy” they said “…it’ll be an adventure!”  So I did just that, and an adventure it was.  I adventured to Mississippi, Okinawa, Guam, Panama, Colombia, Puerto Rice, the Bahamas, Cuba,…