Already, a great, big move for my dear wife

Thinks moved very quickly in her new field for my dear wife Karen. She passed her 90-day probation at the big hospital. Then she started her new position at the eye place. She’s back at the spot she loved while interning during her classes at BOCES. They called and asked if she’d be interested in…

I’m ready to open a new can of duties

Soon I’ll get a chance to deep-think the inner meaning of one of comic Steven Wright’s go-to jokes. It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it. Find the gold in the everyday, coaxed the dry voice of the curly-haired dead-pan guy who made the late-night TV talk-show rounds so regularly…

Working in America at almost 58

I called up my account online, and it was in there. I grabbed the stack of bills from the folder in my dresser, and, old school guy that I am, wrote out checks one by one to send out in the mail. No transfers were made from savings. That felt good. The first two-week paycheck…

Entering a new e world, and it’s not about dating

I’m trying to attract attention with a new online profile. I showed it to my dear wife Karen, and she gave it the green light. This first week after my temp agency informed me the 40-hour-per company had decided to end my assignment two months in has included enough soul searching to remind me that…