Did you know that rebar is a valuable tool for sculptors? I never knew that until a few weeks ago, when I was contacted by an old friend of mine. Back in high school Connie and I were good friends, and sometimes even more than friends! But we were going to different places in life. […]

If you never have to build anything yourself, you lack a certain perspective on the world. I used to be that way, and then I hit a financial rough patch, and there were a few years that I could not afford to hire an expert to do anything for me. If the ductwork needed to […]

My first day working with a construction crew was one of the hardest days of my life. It was followed by several more of the hardest days of my life. Listen, if you don’t need to work construction to pay the bills, I highly advise you to avoid it. This is the most strenuous and […]

My Uncle Mike was a deranged hillbilly genius, and I say this as a compliment. Mike was smart enough to be an engineer, but he dropped out of high school to become a pot farmer. In my teenage years I spent a lot of time on his property, which adjoined the property owned by my […]