Finding Peace in the Process
jimmymac1025
jimmymac1025
- Location
- The 'Burbs, Illinois,
- Birthday
- January 18
- Bio
- Married father of two girls. Was a writer in a previous life. Drove a truck for 20 years. Trudging the road of happy destiny since 1987.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Will marry for food
March 21, 2011 02:02PM - Prog Rock rolls at Ravinia
June 29, 2010 02:58PM - The Courthouse, again
June 19, 2010 03:14PM - Illinois primary skews
democratic process
May 20, 2010 01:59PM - Board backs Arizona hoops trip
cancelation
May 18, 2010 12:24AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Someone like you sat
with my daughter on and off
for over a
year, ultimately
stee…”
March 12, 2012 09:49AM - “I would know it's you.
Couldn't be anyone else. Peace
and
love.”
January 22, 2012 08:48PM - “Highly rated. Pun
intended.”
December 05, 2011 09:50PM - “I think it will be a
brokered convention, with
everything up
for grabs.
Repugs ha…”
December 05, 2011 09:09PM - “Would've been in long
ago, 'cept for a rule change.
Remember
'67? Nobody could
hi…”
December 05, 2011 08:58PM
Jimmymac1025's Links
- Shaving With Connie Francis
- Epilogue
- 16) The Patriarch
- 15) Wedding Pictures
- 14) Hospice
- 13) Eulogy
- 2) Dreams and Ideas
- 3) Let's Play Outside!
- 4) Channeling Nebucadnezzar
- 5) Opening
- 6) Night Riding With the Allman Brothers
- 7) The Matter of Teeth
- 1) Shaving With Connie Francis
- 8) Tortellini Soup
- 9) Catheter Extraction
- 10) Concern
- 11) Thrift
- 12) Baby Angels
- My Best
- Wasted
- The Prodigal Daughter returns
- Attitude adjustment
- No Mother's Day today
- Gunshots in the Night
- My addictions
- Lexipro and boner pills
- Let go and let guilt
- My 'virtual' friends on OS
- Slobbering Salvation
- My Sponsor
- Finding peace in the process
MARCH 21, 2011 2:17PM
Will marry for food
It is said that men marry their mothers. If that were the case, I would be content with meat loaf covered in catsup, overcooked pork chops and, on Fridays, bowing to the dictates of our church, canned salmon somehow transformed into burgers, as if we wouldn’t notice.… Read full post »
JULY 2, 2010 1:23PM
Prog Rock rolls at Ravinia
Any week that includes Jethro Tull and The
Moody Blues is a pretty good week. But after digesting the
progressive rock hitmakers that performed at Ravinia Festival last
week, and updating my i-pod accordingly, the sounds swirling in my
head, the ones that linger, are from Tull's… Read full post »
I give her ten for the train
so she can go back to jail and she calls next day, hey can you take
me up there? I don't ask where she's been and what happened to
yesterday's ten.
I can't take her. I have… Read full post »
MAY 22, 2010 1:29PM
Illinois primary skews democratic process
I'm very jealous today. I wish I lived in
Pennsylvania. Folks in Pennsylvania got to go to the polls this
week. Our primary elections in Illinois were held Feb. 3.
If Pennsylvanians did it the way we did
it, Arlen Spector would be been the… Read full post »
MAY 18, 2010 7:57AM
Board backs Arizona hoops trip cancelation
Administrators on the hot seat for
canceling a trip to Arizona because of its new immigration law
received backing from their school board Monday night.
The decision by administrators in District
113 in northeastern Illinois brought on a wave a criticis… Read full post »
MAY 15, 2010 12:22PM
Girls hoops trip to Arizona denied, for now
Administrators at my alma mater
aren't taking calls at the moment. My guess is that come Monday,
they may reverse the decision which landed them in national news
reports over the last few days.
Highland Park High School, located in
northeastern Il… Read full post »
APRIL 28, 2010 1:33PM
Relieving the pain of death
I wanted to let Jerry die, but I had a
funeral to go to. Mike died first and arrangements had to be made.
Jerry would have to wait.
I consider my term in 2008 as caregiver to
my wife's father and uncle as one of… Read full post »
APRIL 9, 2010 4:30PM
Attraction at a Certain Age
A few posts bounced around yesterday about
the attributes which render men or women desirable at a certain
age.
Me, I'm a Cheap Trick song with a
typo. I want girls who want me. I like girls who like me.
Though no longer intent on validation… Read full post »
MARCH 29, 2010 5:39PM
A boy and his dog
Bad day to skip school, as it turned
out.
It was nice and breezy in late May
of 1967. That meant softball at recess. Worse, though, was that Dad
was home. What was the point of ditching school if he didn't have
the house to… Read full post »
MARCH 27, 2010 4:52PM
Ten Books
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt
Vonnegut. I was on a sci-fi kick when I read
Vonnegut's second novel and discovered worlds beyond and within the
ones we thought we knew. The Late Mr. Vonnegut left me with a
couple of things. One, for a writer,… Read full post »
MARCH 22, 2010 11:35AM
Back to Court (Pt. II)
I tell the girl with the ponytail there
must be some mistake, knowing as I spoke there was none. I tried
blame. Why was she released? The judge's order said she was to be
released to me for transport to a halfway house.
None of… Read full post »
MARCH 20, 2010 7:13PM
Back to Court
I don't think rehab went well. I visited her once. She yelled at me for ten minutes. Then left and slammed the door and kept yelling, her voice finally trailing off after she turned the corner at the end of the hall. The therapist said she's getting better at… Read full post »
MARCH 7, 2010 3:23PM
Taking care of me
I did something good for myself last week.
I got a colonoscopy, four years after turning 50, four years after
my doctor suggested it, more than six months after a couple of guys
on Open Salon suggested it.
The only way people find cancer in… Read full post »
JANUARY 30, 2010 4:15PM
The Joy of Reading About Sex
I'm reading an old John LeCarre' novel,
"The Secret Pilgrim." It's fun. I haven't read a lot of the
author's work, and none of it in a very long time. Spy
stuff. There won't be any spoiler alerts as I am still
reading.
But I have… Read full post »
JANUARY 28, 2010 2:02PM
Obama's Senate seat may be next to go to GOP
I can see it now. Two men stand at podiums
on a stage. Democrat Alexi Giannoulias pleads with Illinois voters
for a chance to go to Washington as one of their two U.S. Senators,
specifically, to serve in the seat formerly occupied by President
Barack Obama.
JANUARY 12, 2010 12:26PM
unstung
I hear Joey the dog licking his paws and I
savor the soft thlip thlip thlip through the silent peace
of my home. It is the only sound. I'm aware it does not threaten me
and I am grateful.
Even before the relapse, right after… Read full post »
DECEMBER 23, 2009 9:11AM
Another Day in Court
The judge wanted her attention.
"Christmas in jail."
He got it.
I brought Rose to court Thursday. I knew
what was coming. She didn't. She had written a letter to the judge
to assure him she had seen… Read full post »
DECEMBER 11, 2009 5:05PM
Little Tarzan
If only he were bigger.
This never happened to the big kids. They
just reached up into the crook of the oak tree and grabbed the
vine, then they let out their best Tarzan yells and swung neatly
from one side of the ravine… Read full post »
DECEMBER 4, 2009 12:36AM
Camp Ma-ka-ja-wan
Camping was the highlight of my
grade school years. We camped for one weekend every month from
Spring through Fall, with the highlight being two weeks in summer
at Camp Ma-ka-ja-wan in northern Wisconsin.
My first campout might well have been my
l… Read full post »
DECEMBER 1, 2009 9:53AM
My Open Salon Annibloggery
You saved me.
I had written a script for my life and it
blew up, so I sat on a couch and ate for three months. Then I
decided to write about what had happened. From Dec. 1 of 2008,
through March of 2009, I… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 27, 2009 9:32PM
My favorite Thanksgiving movie: Pieces of April
"Pieces of April" is my favorite
Thanksgiving movie. I have watched it every year on this weekend
since it was released in 2003.
It tells the story of a family as they
drive for hours into New York City to have dinner… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 19, 2009 3:04PM
OS blogger boffo at Book Cellar
It one thing to read an author's words.
It's another to hear the author read them. I had this pleasure last
night in Chicago when Open Salon blogger Gwendolyn Glover read from
her first novel, "Cast the First Stone."
The setting was "The Book Cellar"… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 13, 2009 9:49AM
Vampire Card
Boys will be boys and moms are
supposed to knock.
Then wait.
They are not supposed to knock as they
walk in, then go all bug-eyed when they see a boy being a boy. The
look on her face was almost worth it.… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 8:34AM
Needles and Pains
My body started talking to me
a while back, but I didn't listen. Now it's screaming.
Someone took five needles and inserted them lengthwise into
each of my wrists.
I go to the doc and he says no, those
aren't needles. You have… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 11:52AM
A Day in Court (Updated)
It was an arraignment. The defendant
officially enters a plea. I was there so she could see me, that's
all. Let her know someone in this world cares where she is.
She's brought in a few minutes before her
case is called. She wears the… Read full post »
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