Oh, Mark! by Mark Lyons Image by InspiredImages from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. “You are handsome. You are fit. You excel at everything you do. No one in this room is as smart or as successful as you.” “That’s right! 100%! Keep going! Tell me more!” says Mark. Sally walks into the room, looks around, and asks her husband, “Mark, who are you talking to?” Mark is sprawled out on the floor with his head on a pillow and his shoes off revealing a bright orange pair of crew socks from SammySocks Etc. “Hi, Honey,” he says. “I...
Mark and Manjamas by Mark Lyons Image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. “Honey, what do you think of this?” asks Mark as he stands with his hands on his hips and looks questioningly at his wife. Sally looks up from the book she is reading, stares as her husband for several seconds, and asks, “What am I supposed to be looking at?” “It’s my latest invention, uh, creation, er, artistic endeavor,” replies Mark. “Uh, huh,” says Sally. “Again, what am I supposed to be looking at?” “Manjamas!” Mark exclaims. “What are manjamas?” asks...
I Don’t Wanna! by Mark Lyons Image by murovas2016 from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Stuff you may have had to do when the bad weather hit even though you didn’t wanna. Get up! Get wood for the fireplace. Go to a hotel. Drive on the bad roads. Unload the car in the ice and snow. Sleep with the cat in the bathroom as the power in the hotel is ...
Mark and the Big Bad Bird by Mark Lyons Image by gabicuz from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. “If I put on my gray hoodie, put up the hood, duck down real low, and run as fast as I can, I think I can make it to the mailbox,” whispers Mark as he peers cautiously through the peephole in his front door. He backs away from the peephole and makes a few notations on a yellow legal pad. After a few more minutes of contemplation, Mark adds more to his original assessment. “If I throw in some zig-zags and flail my...
What If? by Mark Lyons Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. “Hmm, should I have the cardboard bran cereal with 25 grams of fiber or my homemade granola wheat toast with the gluten free, tofu based, omega-3 fatty acid infused, flaxseed salmon spread? Oh, nuts, I’m just going to IHOP.” Oh, hi. My mind was wandering, I mean, I was just thinking. After forty-four years as an educator and now retired, I sometimes think about what my life could have been like if I had chosen a profession other than teaching. I loved my career as...
