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Valentine’s 2024

By pwsadmin / February 16, 2024 / Comments Off

On the 14th of February, I visited my local “Dollar General.”If you’ve kept up with my journals, you’ve probably figured out that I am a loyal customer at the local “DG.” I’ve written many stories about the Place.They all know me there and have always been great to me. I walk in and head to…

Scott Richards

By pwsadmin / February 16, 2024 / Comments Off

Here in the South, we Love and Cherish our Local News Anchors.It may be the same where you live.We feel that they are one of us. On our side. Our Neighbor. Our Friend. Our Family. One of our Local News Anchors passed away today.From childhood until his retirement in 2014, “Scott Richards” of WBRC 6…

Happy Valentines Day

By pwsadmin / February 15, 2024 / Comments Off

—Your Secret Admirer— I tell this story each Valentine’s Day.If you’ve been rejected, you’re not alone.Please note, though, that all Names have been changed. …To protect me. Many years ago, when I was young and in elementary school, each Valentine’s Day, students would bring Valentine’s Day cards for every other student in the classroom.So, if…

The Reunion

By pwsadmin / February 13, 2024 / Comments Off

My Childhood friend, “Lou,” called me the other day to tell me about a Class Reunion—a thirty-year class reunion—and he asked if I wanted to go. I reminded him that my Senior Year was not spent at Fultondale, and I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to go. “Lou,” being the kind, caring friend that…

Home Going

By pwsadmin / February 4, 2024 / Comments Off

I took a deep breath and took my hat off before walking inside the Church.I knew it would be hard seeing her in the Casket.She was born in ’60. Just fifteen years older than me. The Ushers opened the door to the Chapel and welcomed me in.“Family to the left and friends to the right,”…

Middle Of The Night

By pwsadmin / February 1, 2024 / Comments Off

It’s 1 a.m. I just got out of bed and sat down in my recliner. I couldn’t sleep.“Frasier” is playing on TV.It’s probably in my Top Five favorite TV Shows. To my left, “The Dawgs,” “Tommy and Otis” are sleeping on their oversized Dog Bed. I have two regular-sized Dog Beds and one oversized Dog…

Rest In Peace

By pwsadmin / January 30, 2024 / Comments Off

—R.I.P.— We laughed.That’s what I remember the most about you and me. We laughed. You were 36 when we met. I was 20—twenty and just starting out in life.You knew this world would swallow me up if you didn’t help me. So you did. You helped me. Helped me to guide my ship through the…

A Bachelors Christmas – Final

By pwsadmin / January 2, 2024 / Comments Off

—A Bachelors Christmas Final— It was New Year’s Day 2013, and I was waiting to get discharged from Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. I had been brought to the Hospital by Ambulance on Christmas Day. I had several Infections in my body, including a bad Kidney Infection, and a White Blood Cell Count that was…

A Bachelors Christmas Part 3

By pwsadmin / December 31, 2023 / Comments Off

—A Bachelors Christmas Part 3— It was Christmas Day 2013, and I was in Huntsville Hospital. Much like the rest of America, I was supposed to have gone to my family’s House for Christmas Day. That wasn’t happening, though. I had several Infections in my body.A bad Kidney Infection being one.My White Blood Cell Count…

A Bachelors Christmas Part 2

By pwsadmin / December 31, 2023 / Comments Off

—A Bachelors Christmas Part 2— I woke up as the EMTs were taking me out of the Ambulance and taking me into the Hospital. In the Hospital, the Doctors and Nurses attended to me immediately. An X-ray was taken, as well as Urine and Blood. Talking required oxygen, and my oxygen was so poor at…