by Gene Sanders | Mar 7, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I’ve spent most of my professional life as a shipper but I love carriers. Why do I love carriers? Lots of reasons. The best health benefits I’ve ever had at any job paid 100% of the cost of the birth of one of my amazing daughters and my employer was a parcel carrier....
by Gene Sanders | Feb 22, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Back in the olden days, when I was a counselor at summer camp, Sea Dog and I used to have a little routine whenever someone did something memorably idiotic. We would excuse ourselves from the mess hall while the tables were being cleared, and return just in time for...
by Gene Sanders | Feb 8, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Heck, I wrote it. You may have heard the United Kingdom and the United States referred to as “two countries divided by a common language”. Even if you haven’t heard it, I believe there is some truth to it. I found myself in a DGSA preparation class with some American...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 25, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
“Hey, Gene”, I was told, “you missed the point on that reverse logistics column you wrote”. Well. A deep breath. No one can learn from their mistakes, if they don’t know what their mistakes are. Heck, if I’ve been learning from every mistake I’ve ever made, I should...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 11, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Madam, I’m Adam. Oops, I wrote that backward. It should have read madA m’I ,madaM. Oh, wait, if we ignore the punctuation marks and spaces, it still says the same thing! It’s one of those palindromes, meaning it’s the same in either direction. Sort of like the current...
by Gene Sanders | Dec 28, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
For the next 60 seconds, when I start this stopwatch, you may think of anything you want, except Pink Elephants. You may not create mental pictures of pachyderms that are pink instead of grey, you not allowed to think of the alcoholic drink, and you cannot even let...
by Gene Sanders | Dec 14, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I had just informed my son that for the second time in his 15 years of life, I was about to move him to a new city and a new school. “Finally used to things here”, are you kidding me? We’d been in that city for 10 years, and that school district for 9 years, so it...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 30, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
“Oh, no, I’m not. I’ve got 2 minutes to spare”, responds my teenager. “Not on a week night”, I answer, “you’re nearly two hours late”. “Get a clue, Dad, there’s no school tomorrow. So, I’m on time”. “It’s still a week night, though, and you’re past the week night...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 16, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I suppose that’s true for lots of boys, and probably for the same reason as Jackson’s. Fire engines are red, fire trucks are red, and fire wagons are red. Jackson doesn’t play with model cars, he plays with model ladder trucks and model pumpers and model fire chiefs’...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 2, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I was younger then. Years ago…, heck, centuries ago…, wait, actually, due to Y2K, technically a millennium ago, I was young and there were drive-in movie theatres across the land. We were at a double-feature, and after the children’s movie would be the latest and...
