Choice Morsels

There are some days when this quote is wholly appropriate.  A good number of years ago we had a young Air Force guy in our Bible Study group. He was about 22 and during the Bible at the Airman Center on base, I'd often see him suddenly shift from sitting upright on his stool to hanging over the top of the stool on his belly and turning the stool top in a circle with his feet. This was partly to keep himself awake.  After a long day on the job he just found it too hard sitting still. There was one time, though, when he was at our house on a Sunday evening for the Bible study and he didn't have work for an excuse. Right in the middle of my turn to share, he suddenly threw his hands up in the air and slid down in his chair, practically sliding out of it, so his head and shoulders were on the seat---pretty much like a 5 year old. And right in the middle of me speaking. Was I that boring? I was totally incensed.  That's when I put "my hat on" and in my sternest ...

I've had many jobs over the course of my life, but my all time favorite was working at the Bolling Air Force Base Arts and Crafts Center in 1984, shortly after Hubby and I were married. It included  wood-working shop, ceramics shop, framing shop, a large from for art & craft classes and a small art supply store for brushes, paints, canvas, etc. Each of these areas also offered classes so, for a small fee, you could learn how to build something with wood, frame your own art, learn to paint in oil or watercolor and pour and paint your own ceramic pieces.  Joint Anacostia-Bolling Arts & Crafts Center (2017) I saw in the base paper a job opening at the Center and applied and was hired to manage and build-up the Craft side of the Center.  The Art Director wanted more classes offered, so my job was to find and hire instructors for a variety of art & craft classes as well as teach classes myself.  We had a friend, an Air Force officer, who did stai...

We moved to Eglin Air Base in August, 1985. Hubby had two children from a previous marriage, a boy and a girl, named Shane and Stacy that we'd have out to visit us in summers for a good number of years. Their step-Dad was in the Navy stationed on the west coast and we were in the Air Force stationed in the East, so summer was the only time they could visit and usually it was just a couple weeks. But in 1986, Shane happened to already be at our house several months before summer. He was 13 at the time. It's hard to remember exact details now, but there was some sort of altercation at his other home that motivated his Mom & step-Dad to put him on a plane and ship him out to us right in the middle of the spring school semester!  So, he'd been living with us since around mid-March. We were living in base housing then, in a small two-bedroom unit that was part of a 4-plex of similar two-bedroom units. One of the unique features of living on base was the tornado siren,...