The phone rang (again). It was a most inconvenient time (again). I didn’t recognize the number (again).
When I picked it up I heard a nice woman’s voice inform me there’s nothing urgent with my credit card… I hung up. Again.
How many times do you get these obnoxious calls purporting to come from your credit card company? Can’t somebody do something about this?
They can. And here’s how…
But first, a trip in the Wayback Machine…
It was the early 1980s and I was sitting in the office of the firm’s owner. I wasn’t in trouble (this time). Continue Reading “Please Somebody Steal this Idea!”
Ode To An Iconic Public Servant
Jeanne
I don’t remember the first time I met Jeanne Loberg, but I remember how I felt. She immediately struck me as the new kid on the block. What did that make me? The newer kid on the block.
This may sound ironic, but her knowledge and wisdom overshadowed all that “new kid” stuff. She was “new” because she hadn’t lived in Mendon her whole life. I was new because I had just moved into town. And because I wasn’t yet thirty years old. Despite my obvious youth and inexperience, she took it upon herself Continue Reading “Ode To An Iconic Public Servant”