Also at the time, and of course still could be true, Florida's number two income second only to tourism was their court system and misdemeanor fines. I was charged once with failing to leave a bar when asked. I didn't know the guy who asked me, I had never seen him before and he was on the patron side of the bar, I simply asked, "Why what's the problem? I spent thirty days in jail for that and thirty days previously because my auto insurance lapsed two weeks, even though the company vehicle I was driving had insurance.
I lost my truck and all my painting equipment, so when I got out, I bought a bus ticket on the first bus out of town and never went back. I'm in Wisconsin now more than two decades after the time I told stories in the fort as a boy. Much has happened to shape my perspective; much more than I can write here. I've heard said that you can't run away from yourself, because wherever you go, there you are. I never thought of it as running away, except of course when I left Florida to avoid their corrupt courts, how dare I expect a fair trial , but I saw it more as searching, exploring.
There is so much out there to see, by this time, I've been in or through every state in the lower forty eight of the U. I've always found Wisconsin the most welcoming state. It has its region of rural, but it's never far from a city if you want something a little faster paced, and the people are also the most welcoming. I've bartended here, drove taxi, worked in restaurants and warehouses.
My first year here some roommates brought home a kitten that we named Felix. He still had the scars on the back of his neck from where his mother carried him around. The first night with us he jumped up in my bed and curled up under the covers with me, he's been mine ever since. He was a very loving kitty. He cried when my roommates were moving out, he must have sensed what was going on. He's traveled with me, as I've continued exploring, or running, depending on your perspective and has been more places than most humans.
I've had rough times here of course too, I lost a home I was trying to buy in after losing my job. I've slept in my van most of the time. I wiped more than twenty five years of dust of that novel I wrote and started to re-write it. Not having enough money at the time for a car, or really needing one in the small Lake Michigan city I was living in, I rode my bike most everywhere, even in the winter. I laugh now as I remember riding my bike home from the tavern I worked at. I'd often stop at other taverns and have a few drinks.
One time I fell off my bike and slid about twenty feet on the freshly fallen snow. I'd continue writing my novel and much to my landlord's dismay also start to paint murals on my apartment wall.
I saved up enough money to buy an old truck and a camper it could barely pull. I drove to Omaha to visit a friend and finished a prequel to my first novel. I also drove down to visit my sister in Arkansas and paint her house for her and met an internet friend in St. Louis before stopping again at the grave of my high school teacher to drop off a copy of my first released novel that I put in a sealed plastic baggy and left it on his grave.
I then realized, although I always thought him to be much older, he was about the same age I'm at now when he died. These are but a few of the highlights of my lifelong journey.
There's of course more, always more. Like some stories I could tell about trying to return to school at 47 years old, or using social media to find a son I hadn't seen in more than twenty five years and inviting him over for Thanksgiving dinner. I've released six stories at or near novel length over the past twelve years. I've always loved this quote from one of my novels. It really summarizes much of what I've seen and learned in my travels.
No matter where I've lived, or who I've met this seems to ring true. We are truly all the same. We may each have different backgrounds or ethnicity, different wants or desires, but deep down we are all the same. We can all learn a lot from my cat Felix who I recently had to put down and of course wrote a story about his adventure in kitty afterlife. Whenever I had a visitor or any of the people I met over the twelve short years of his life, he'd be sure to rub up against their leg or jump in their lap.
He didn't care what you looked like, or where you came from, so long as you were nice to him, he'd love you with all of his tiny kitty heart. I miss you Felix. Well thank you for following me on this flashback and I hope all is well with you and yours. Stay tuned for more stories from the next fifty plus years of my journey through life. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
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Many people want us to be afraid. Published on September 21, Robb Chase is now friends with Jennifer Bourgeois. Aug 13, Oct 15, I'm not sure if you charge for feedback, but I'm not working and can't afford much. Finally, Thor, Heimdall , and Vidar manage to break into Thyrm's lair to aid Magnus and his friends against Loki and the giants. The moment he is in the chamber, Thor reunites with his hammer that he calls "Mee-Mee", and completely ignores his two goats who had just witnessed a battle and are probably faced with PTSD especially Otis.
Although Otis doesn't make an appearance in this book, Magnus sees a goat that he thinks to be Otis after jumping out of a moving train with Sam and Mallory. He and Marvin are being watched by Heimdall while Thor jogs the nine worlds. The watchman dresses them in pajamas and takes videos of them. When Odin tells him to keep watch, Otis and Marvin jump off the Bifrost.
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