Tag: IBM

• A Watercolor Found

  My father never said much about his life.  He did have his favorite stories that he would tell us when his four boys were…little boys.  Some of the tales were family jokes, like this one: “We were so poor, one Christmas we got a pair of roller skates.  We had to wait until the next…

  patrickjegan

  December 23, 2014

  Blogging, Family, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  brothers, cabin in snowy field, death of parent, father, IBM, mother, owego ny, painting, Scranton PA, water color, winter scene

• I Was a Teenage Blogger

    The road to perdition is paved with little things. My own dark and tragic personal story begins with little pieces of paper.  Not small bits the size of confetti that are thrown out of windows on lower Broadway during “ticker-tape” parades.  No, larger slips white or yellow ripped from notebooks, steno pads and the…

  patrickjegan

  April 3, 2014

  Fictional Personal History, humor, satire, Short Fiction

  blogging, blogs, Dell, depression, down and out motels, IBM, personal computers, posts, strippers