Category: Blogging

• Passports I: East and West of the Sun

  The great city of New York was behind us…and the sun was setting in the west.  We flew into the approaching darkness of night. As I was planning this blog series, I was sitting on the American Airlines 767 trans-oceanic super jet propelled airplane.  My problem, right from the ‘get go’ (God, I hate that…

  patrickjegan

  May 14, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, humor, Real Personal History, Travels

  american airlines, bistro, flights, France, full moon, garden of luxemborg, JFK airport, Paris

• The Skeleton in the Taxi

  The Division Head in the private school where I taught was very adamant. “All this stuff has to go, Pat.  Everything you don’t use in a year should be cleaned out.” I looked around the Middle School lab and began to make mental notes of what needed to be tossed.  The chemicals, of course, had…

  patrickjegan

  April 23, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, humor, Real Personal History

  classrooms, East River, Fifth Ave., Metropolitan Museum, NYC, private schools, science labs, skeletons, son

• The Perfect Blog

  I know with absolute certainty that he will find me.  There is no escape anywhere…ever.  And I have no one to blame but myself. I moved from Antioch, Nebraska to New York City thinking, for a while, that there would be safety in numbers.  A face in a crowd of millions.  How foolish I was.…

  patrickjegan

  April 7, 2014

  Blogging, humor, satire, Short Fiction

  bars, beers, blogging, blogs, clout, Devil, Facebook, Faust, Nebraska, NYC, souls, the perfect blog, twitter, WordPress