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It's the Ides of March. Eighteen years since I got fired from a job, just a few weeks before I would have been vested in the pension plan. Oh, well. The money was never mine.
Recently an advice-column entry about whether someone should drop in their family's old home made me look up my childhood home on a search engine. I was astounded to find out that the person who bought the property from me in July 2002 for $100,000 sold it in April 2021 for $260,000. Well, maybe not astounded, but still. Because the house is not for sale, the real-estate websites had only external photos, showing me the place hasn't changed all that much in the past 20 years.
I can hardly take my eyes off the photos. So many memories. So much emotion.
Anyhow. I keep on keeping on. I am doing four or five different things for my congregation. I am working on a long feature article. I don't have enough money to pay my bills. My blood pressure is inching back up again. I feel like the guy on "The Ed Sullivan Show" who would spin plates on top of sticks and try to keep the plates from crashing down. But sometimes the plates got smashed no matter what he would do.
Recently an advice-column entry about whether someone should drop in their family's old home made me look up my childhood home on a search engine. I was astounded to find out that the person who bought the property from me in July 2002 for $100,000 sold it in April 2021 for $260,000. Well, maybe not astounded, but still. Because the house is not for sale, the real-estate websites had only external photos, showing me the place hasn't changed all that much in the past 20 years.
I can hardly take my eyes off the photos. So many memories. So much emotion.
Anyhow. I keep on keeping on. I am doing four or five different things for my congregation. I am working on a long feature article. I don't have enough money to pay my bills. My blood pressure is inching back up again. I feel like the guy on "The Ed Sullivan Show" who would spin plates on top of sticks and try to keep the plates from crashing down. But sometimes the plates got smashed no matter what he would do.
