Category: Fettig, Art

  • Yard Sailin’

    Yard Sailin’

    Music by Art Fettig and Greg Brayton It is strange, sometimes, when seeing something triggers your memory to something else that happened years, years ago. I recently pulled up an old movie on Turner Classic Movies named “Please Don’t Eat The Daisies.” It starred Doris Day and was taken from a book by Jean Kerr. …

  • On Finishing Things

    On Finishing Things

    I had an unusual experience while visiting Ayr Mount.  I met a fine artist from England. I’m not sure if he now lives here or was visiting. He just turned 80 and when I told him I was 91 and still write and speak some he asked, “What have you finished in the past ten…

  • My Nova Scotia Adventure

    My Nova Scotia Adventure

    It was in mid-May, 1991 and I was on a small Air Canada scheduled flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia and as we approached for a landing there was a dense fog. The plane drifted down, and then suddenly the engine roared and we soared into the air. Luckily I had a seasoned flyer sitting in…

  • Bad Day – by Art Fettig

    Bad Day – by Art Fettig

    Have you ever had a bad day? Let’s put it this way, the best thing that has happened to me today, so far, is when my computer crashed. Before that it had been downhill all day. Can you feel my pain. Yet!

  • Hog Dealers – by Art Fettig

    Hog Dealers – by Art Fettig

    One time early in my career as a professional speaker I had a call from the Iowa Hog Grower Association and they wanted me to do a banquet speech for their members at an annual meeting.