Category: Fettig, Art
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The Spirit
No, it isn’t July 4th yet but I think it might be a good time for all of us to get a good shot of patriotism right now! Today!. Here is a poem I wrote back in 1975 getting ready for America’s Bicentennial.
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It Saved My Life, Volunteering
The first thing I learned was “Don’t volunteer for anything.” Pretty good advice. They would trick us. The Sgt. would say, “I need ten men with office experience.” Then he’d send the ten somewhere to dig a latrine, Or to work in the mess hall cleaning the grease trap.
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Aging – by Art Fettig
Lately I have noticed that people have changed their manner of greeting me when I walk up to them at a yard sale or such. Over the years I have become accustomed to greetings like “Whatta ya say man?”
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Circus – by Art Fettig
I watched the movie Jumbo about a circus elephant and my wife Jean asked me “Art, did you see a circus very often when you were a kid?” And BOOM!!! It all came rushing back to my memory. I had a booking for the Michigan School Administrators or Principals, someone, and it was at the…
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Don’t Wait Too Long – Art Fettig and Greg Brayton
Did you ever get the news that someone you’ve known for a long time had passed away and you got the feeling inside that that friend had just waited too long? Maybe it was that they just waited too long to use their special talent waiting for somebody to pay them big bucks for trying.