Story # 3: Audrey, the TCOIC boss.

Story # 3: Audrey, the TCOIC boss.

Apparently, St. Croix forestry camp and the hell I endured were not a sufficient deterrent. Not long after gaining my freedom, I found myself in the middle of the night intoxicated and on the roof of Len's grocery store smashing the small skylight with my foot and then

Story #2: Larry

Story #2: Larry

Over the next four years I was arrested 23 more times and sent up to reform school four more times. My last reform school stop was at St Croix Forestry Camp located about 20 miles east of a town called Sandstone deep in the woods of northern Minnesota. It was

I'm Writing a Book 😬

I'm Writing a Book 😬

I sat and stared at the above sentence I'm Writing a Book for quite a while (about 2 weeks) before I finally decided to have the guts to use the title and send you a series of stories (first one below) that I am considering including in the

A Quote

A Quote

Everything is changing, including you, me, and everyone. At 70 years old and with 6 children, one thing I have learned over and over is how our children evolve and change over time. The dangerous trap we can fall into with our children, and others, is our tendency to see

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