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April 2019

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 15

As my fellow worker kept driving, winding his way down the two lane mountain road, in the San Diego foothills, it was evident by the gleam in his eyes that he had insight I...

March 2019

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 14

Many times while I was in the process of losing everything, I told myself, “If I lose everything, I’ll just rebuild it. I did it the first time, I’ll just do it again.” I...

February 2019

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 13

Beginning again, way back when…. The door opened with some skepticism, disbelief and wonder on both sides. As for my wife, she no doubt wondered who might be knocking at 4 a.m. Me,...

January 2019

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 12

Jonah in the belly of the whale – another day and time, 1979 So then, where were we? Oh yes, the dream, the voice and now the journey, all of which was quite...

November 2018

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 11

I tossed a burning cigarette into my wishing well. Watched it turning cold and wet, watched it as it fell.      I climbed the stairway to heaven, but at the top I stopped and...

October 2018

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 10

Ramona, California. Mountain Top, Master Bedroom, August 2018.      “You aren’t going to tell them what happened during that year and a half that we were separated, are you?” My wife had just read...

September 2018

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 9

We are about to make a head-on collision with the facts. We are going to get this said, like it or not. We will tell the truth and share several unexplainable occurrences. Miracles? Miracles that...

August 2018

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 8

Mayan Seaside, Belize, July 2, 2018. Looking back, and considering what management has come to mean, if I were asked to define it in one sentence, I would define it as such: “Figure out what...

July 2018

Diary of a Drywaller: Chapter 7

Poway, California, 1978 Now the sign has always read You’d be a fool to go ahead But you know you’ve always gone The day has always brought the dawn Sunny skies have slipped...