Joann Foley

Today is Memorial Day. My dad served our country during the Korean War in the Navy as a Seabee. That meant that he was doing construction for the Navy. That worked out well, because he learned how to be a carpenter, plumber and electrician while working on Navy bases and buildings. Then when he got out, he had a skilled trade.

My dad died from cancer back in the 1980’s, when I was just in my 20’s. I feel cheated out of having a dad as an adult. I loved him so much and I’m so proud of him for having served in the Navy.

Less TV. More Music.

Why do all the rock and roll type of songs suck? I don’t like anything they play on the rock stations anymore.

For some reason, I really like the new country songs. The artists like Randy Houser and Gary Allen are sexy and funny and the kinds of songs that you can just bop along to while driving in traffic.

How many times can you legally hit the snooze alarm? They have laws about everything else in the world. I guess they should make it illegal to hit the snooze alarm more than 3 times. Protect the world form all those lazy people who won’t even get out of bed on time. Send them to jail where they HAVE to get up.

For a couple of years I was reading the weekly free newspaper because they ran a somewhat regular column by a local home inspector named Walter Jowers. I really like his writing style and his storytelling skill, and he makes good points about home construction, maintenance and repairs. But then he disappeared from that paper.

Well, by chance I was looking at a different alternative paper and found that his weekly column has found a new home. He will be writing for the City Paper every Thursday, which is extra cool because I can read that online and don’t have to go pick up the actual printed newspaper to read Walter’s columns.