by Gene Sanders | May 14, 2021 | From The Porch Swing
I can’t remember exactly why, but I was wearing a tie and jacket over my dress shirt. Not just any jacket, but one that matched my dress pants, so that I was wearing a dress suit. And I just don’t feel like a suit kind of guy. Perhaps I equate them with tuxedos, and...
by Gene Sanders | Mar 24, 2021 | SPRAY Technology & Marketing
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by Gene Sanders | Mar 23, 2021 | From The Porch Swing
What a year! 2020 was quite something different than the usual, wasn’t it? As I sit on my porch swing and watch fireworks celebrate the arrival of the midnight between December 31st and January 1st, I’m thinking about how so many people are so happy...
by Gene Sanders | Oct 4, 2020 | From The Porch Swing
The shock on their faces was palpable. A HazMat/DG instructor who didn’t know the answer to a compliance question? How could that be? Who would’ve brought in such a person to deliver training? And didn’t he seem to know his stuff otherwise? Can we trust anything else...
by Gene Sanders | May 22, 2020 | From The Porch Swing
Au contraire, I am absolutely serious, thoroughly serious, and to a mammoth degree serious. I am PG I serious, In my classes, and in all good instructors’ classes, the goal is to have students understand the regulations, not just blindly attempt to comply...
by Gene Sanders | Mar 4, 2020 | From The Porch Swing
I hate to admit it, but it’s true. The From the Porch Swing column isn’t always written from my porch swing. I moved a couple of years ago, and the swing that was happily under a covered and screened porch is now mostly out in the elements and the bugs,...
by Gene Sanders | Feb 6, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
I am fairly sure this expression is more about luring and killing flies than about capturing them. And, unless one is a geneticist double-checking old Drosophila (fruit-fly) studies, I’m not sure why anyone wants flies anyway. But aside from the obvious meaning, I’m...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 23, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
When we were cute little smart-aleck boys barely old enough for school, we used to enjoy saying “I ain’t gonna say ain’t no more, cuz ain’t ain’t a word in the dictionary. Ain’t that great?” The word ain’t may or may not actually be in the dictionary, but I do know...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 9, 2017 | From The Porch Swing
I used to be thinner. In fact, there was a time when I was downright skinny. I didn’t have a washboard stomach, but I had speed bump ribs. And I desperately wanted to be good at sports. There was an irrational hope in me, that probably still hasn’t completely gone...
by Gene Sanders | Dec 26, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I like comics and written cartoons. I like funny papers and serials and editorial cartoons. A lot of what I like are multi-panel strips, some with long-running stories. But I also like one-panel stand-alone cartoons. One of my all time favorites was published...