by Gregory Smallwood | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
It followed me home from Florida. I wasn’t sure what to think of it at first, but it grew on me. After a week or so, I was sure that it would go away, but I wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye. And it gave me a bit of a warm feeling in the chill of...
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...
