by Gerry Furgason | Mar 12, 2024 | Random Thoughts
Safety pins, straight pins, thimble, seam ripper, spools of thread, and various sizes of buttons were housed in my sewing box. Tucked in one corner was a crocheted piece of blue yarn that my mother gave me to use for a pincushion. And then there were packets of...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 11, 2024 | Random Thoughts
My Brother Paul read many letters that I wrote to him while he was stationed with The Screaming Eagles 101st Airborne Division during the Korean War. He informed me that two of his friends did not receive letters and asked me to write to them. At the McKay Street...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | Random Thoughts
When I ran into an artist friend in a hardware store years ago, he told me he was shopping for an extra lock to put on his studio door because he was tired of relatives looking inside and describing his area as “disgusting”, “deplorable” or “downright...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 31, 2023 | Random Thoughts
In trying to understand why I came to rely on myself as a trusted authority in large and small matters, I recalled that I had been reared Catholic. There were no counselors on every street corner, but there was one every Friday of the school year in every...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | Random Thoughts, Uncategorized
As if having tinnitus is not enough, I have acquired the seemingly dedicated services of a small, green, noisy cricket. I know this small cricket is green because it landed on my arm and I was so shocked that I was unable to shoo it away before it hopped...
