Installment #22
My boss agreed to let me file for unemployment to supplement my income while I looked for a new full-time position. I would go into the...
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- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #21
I worked at the Depuy Canal House for 2 1/2 years, finally deciding there was no room for growth or promotion. I did so love that job, it...
- Sep 17, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #20
I often get asked how I keep all of my inventory straight; lucky for me one of my strong suits is organization. I hope I don’t jinx...
- Sep 10, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #19
A lot sure has changed from back when I first started selling dolls, and doll clothes and accessories on eBay. Of course, back then I...
- Sep 3, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #18
As the dolls came to me to be sold the temptation was often great to offer to buy one out-right to keep for my own. There were so many...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #17
“How many of these dolls did you say you have?” Wow… who knew! I don’t recall the exact amount but that handful of dolls and outfits put...
- Aug 20, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #16
A couple of weeks pass and I find myself armed with about a dozen dolls and a page of handwritten notes explaining who the dolls are,...
- Aug 13, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #15
I had been living in my apartment for about a year, I was good and settled and had everything in its place. I had a box of miscellaneous...
- Aug 6, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #14
The following summer, 2006, my little hamlet of High Falls organized it’s very first annual pet show contest that would be a part of the...
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #13
It was the fall of 2005, I was settled into my new apartment and feeling like it was time to introduce a new cat into my life. I called...
- Jul 23, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #12
After about six months of living with the friend that I had moved in with when I moved to New York State, I decide it was in my best...
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #11
I arrived in New York State on February 14, 2004. I moved in with a friend who lived in a blink-and-you-miss-it town called Olivebridge...
- Jul 9, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #10
I arrived at my mom’s house in West Virginia to spend the weekend, I would be moving to New York soon so this was our last time spent...
- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Installment #9
It was February 8, 2004, right before my move to New York, that I made a road trip to go visit my mom and my sister in West Virginia. I...
- Jun 25, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #8
I made several trips to New York before moving there, checking the area out and trying to decide whether I wanted to live there or not....
- Jun 18, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #7
Benji was the spitting image of Max, right down to the adorably rotten personality. I truly believed that he was the reincarnation of Max...
- Jun 11, 2019
- 3 min
Installment #6
The following year a new fur baby came into my life. One of my husband's employees took the kitten from a young girl at a convenience...
- Jun 4, 2019
- 3 min
Installment #5
WARNING! - IF YOU ARE OF A SENSITIVE NATURE, THIS INSTALLMENT DEALS WITH THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A PET. Max came first. He was, what I...
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #4
My husband and I never had any children, once we decided it was “that time” and after several attempts at becoming pregnant, we went...
- May 21, 2019
- 2 min
Installment #3
My husband refused to fly in an airplane; he never had and refused to consider it. So our journeys were limited to discovering only those...
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