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1. Worked for Pres. & VP of national territorial offices of different companies; run the Eastern Regional Office of a national floor care manufacturer; etc.

2. Editorial assistant to National Trade Magazine; moved on to proofread all literature and art from agency.

3. Employed as an Editor with various hats at a local newspaper.
Then Wrote guest columns for that paper, as well as other local papers; had a regular column in a larger area paper....

i was surprised, thought my friends & I, wud have good time going to the Governor's Malloy's mansion, but it was rather boring & stressful.
people visitin kinda friendly, but staff & security guards at the mansion gave us such dirty looks.
thought they'd offer coffee, or cider or donuts or cookies but all they gave folks was a postcard with mincemeat recipe!
man..governor was friendlier to foreigners at his mansion, than the state residents too.
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well now, I have NO idea how I found this site. I was online looking for a good recipe for madness and ..... bing.....here I am. lol

There are a few other sites that have this same format. Ya know, with the blogs and forums. One is a sober recovery site, the other is a prison talk site. I was members of both. lol :

I was going to start my little thing here off with politics, the election bulls*it. But I changed my mind.
Since this is my first entry I think...

I don't know the precise title of the poem, or the precise year in which it was written, but there's an old piece by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, which opens with the following words: People getting divorced / driving around with their things in their car...


My first encounter with Mr. Ferlinghetti was highly unanticipated - in my lowly high school, located in a suburb of Charlotte, the library included a handful of examples of beat writing: a general anthology, and two of Ferlinghetti's...