Category: Fettig, Art

As I was thinking about what I was about to write I caught myself staring at the wall beside my computer but seeing nothing. Just staring into space, searching for a creative spark, sort of, and when I focused in I realized that I was staring at the thirty plus photos of family, friends and…

A decade or two ago when I was on the road speaking a lot I used to go to bed early and plan to rehearse speech segments in my mind.  I would actually see myself out on a stage delivering prepared material.

I’m sitting here at my desk in my office in my home here in the quiet woods in Hillsborough, North Carolina and I seem to be lost for the right words. I have written this segment again and again.These are troubled days for all Americans.

Did you ever do anything in your lifetime so much better than you ever did it before that you couldn’t understand it?  My son Dan hit a hole in one on the golf course where he plays regularly in Battle Creek, Michigan.  He was absolutely amazed and so was his golfing partner. 

On the morning of February 16th, 1948 l reported for work in the General Claims Department Office of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad in Detroit, Michigan.  Thirty Five years later I retired from the GTWRR. I’d worked my way up to the job of Corporate Communications Officer, reporting directly to the railroad president..  When someone…