worklife
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The last leg of my summer reorganization is about scheduling time so I get the most important things done. I don’t want to be a slave to a to-do list, yet there are things I want to accomplish in life. Importantly, these are my book A Working Life, reducing the number of possessions, and helping… Read more
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I wrote about the role Pablo Picasso played in my creative life after seeing the retrospective the New York Museum of Modern Art on June 4, 1980. My creative work takes place in a context of mundane blocks of time into which I divide each day. There have been different iterations of this since reaching… Read more
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Last week I worked three six and a half hour shifts as a poll worker for the Johnson County Auditor, helping with drive-through voting. This operation is conducted in a parking ramp located next to the county administration building. If a person is sociable, the work interacting with voters can be engaging. If less so,… Read more
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For $33.99 I walked on by the pallet of Stella Artois at Costco Wholesale. I can find better things to do with my money. Once upon a summer past I would buy a case to drink after working in the garden. 24 bottles would last most of the summer. Despite the physical pleasures, I am… Read more
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I spent time Sunday working on how to use my time. The two parts were structuring days into time blocks and working to better define tasks listed for accomplishment. This post details some of what I did. The natural breaks in my days at home are by time. These time periods follow a natural rhythm… Read more
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I’m from the government and I’m here to help. Now that I on-boarded with the county auditor to be a poll worker, I can truthfully say that. Ronald Reagan made a joke about those nine words, yet voting is no laughing matter. On-boarding consisted of driving to the county administration building, locating the appropriate area,… Read more
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After I finished the work table, I sorted stuff in the workshop. In other words, I filled the table with stuff thrown hodge-podge in every nook and cranny. This will be a long process, yet I am heartened by having another surface to use for this work. It is beginning with tools. The table project… Read more
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There was a time when I attended estate and farm auctions and bought things on the cheap for later projects. The years since then can be measured in decades. At a point in my life when I have to either do something with stuff, or otherwise dispose of it, I got out the top and… Read more
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With four weeks left until Labor Day, summer is about finished. A lot of work remains. The only compensation I receive for any of it is the satisfaction of a job well done. Is my work the same as working for an employer? I think so, yet there is an attitude shift when we work… Read more
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Following is a chapter of my privately published memoir, An Iowa Life. A Union Job With classes and examinations finished, I headed back to Mother’s home for the summer. Several high school classmates applied for summer jobs at industrial workplaces in the Quad-Cities. The post-World War II economy was still humming at John Deere, International… Read more
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