Category: Life’s Stories

So this week has been really rough. Since Target was closed last Sunday for Easter, the HR rep. at the store scheduled me for an extra night, which was Tuesday and instead of my usual Friday night I worked last night because my wife and I are going out tonight. Now of and by itself that’s not all that bad what made it worse was that Tuesday, yesterday and today I was scheduled to work on the drill rig so my day began at 7:00 am. So Tuesday and Thursday my day went from 7 AM to 11:15 PM! Added in there was a funeral on Wednesday. Three weeks ago my wife’s Aunt Anita passed away, leaving her Aunt Nancy as the last of my father-in-law’s four sisters. The Thursday before Easter we received a call that Nancy had fallen down her basement stairs, and died, Wednesday was her funeral. Anyway with all that it has been hard to post anything to my website! Hopefully, next week will be better! Read More

Santa climbing the fire ladder into Gimbels

So last week my company had our Christmas luncheon, and my boss asked everyone for Christmas memories. I related a story about seeing Santa come out of a house near my Uncle Ott’s house coming home from church one Christmas Eve. The one I should have told was the memories of going into Philly to shop and see the Christmas displays at Gimbels, Lit Brothers and Wanamakers! For us boomers the Christmas season began in the Delaware Valley when at the end the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Santa made the climb up to whatever floor he was stationed on! Yes, those were the days before the Malls drove customers to the suburbs and my family made the trek to these stores almost every Holiday season and it was magical. The trains, the snow and lights and Santa all made a childs eyes light up! I’m sorry but the Malls don’t even come close to the magic that these stores created! Of course it helped that I was a child!! Read More