Music and Stories from Art Wheeler
My wife was the news editor of the weekly county newspaper in the town where we lived shortly after we were married. This is also the county where we grew up. As news editor of a county paper, she was the primary reporter for almost all newsworthy items. She covered city and county government meetings, …
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My friend Joe and I left the dormitory at college to go to the part of town that had the good record stores. I was in search of a song but didn’t know what it was called. There were two main record stores in town. Camelot Music was in the mall. Sounza Musik was a …
I walked into the breakroom to get some hot chocolate. I hadn’t been at work that long, so it was to early for anyone to be taking a break. The only other person in the breakroom was the temporary employee. She spent half of her day cleaning parts and the other half cleaning the breakroom …
I was going on a first date with a girl I barely knew. This was the first time I had ever been to her house. When I pulled up in her driveway, I saw concrete steps leading up to the stoop in front of the door. There was a screen door in addition to the …
As I write this story, we are in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many businesses and institutions are closing, modifying their hours or limiting access to parts of their building. Social distancing is a behavior to help reduce the risk of exposure for people when they need to go into stores, to work or …
At our previous house, we had a mailbox at the road next to our driveway. When we moved to the house, it had the traditional style mailbox except that it opened on both ends. That way, we didn’t have to walk into the street to retrieve the mail. There was a flower bed around the …
NOTE: The names in this story have been changed. Once you read it, you will understand why.A few years ago, we had a new salaried employee start at work. I will call him Crazy Bob. I didn’t get to meet him until the end of his first week when I went to lunch with him, …
On a Saturday evening last August, I was at home eating when my cell phone rang around 8:27 PM. The call was from a number that I did not recognize. I answered and they said, “What’s up, ni***r?” I replied, “Don’t know, what’s up with you?” They immediately hung up. Less than a minute later …
Over the summer while my youngest daughter was home from college, she and I went to the movies a couple of times. My son lives in town and we invited him to go with us on both trips. The two films we went to see were Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Annabelle Comes Home. Both trips …
Last October, my wife and I moved to a new house. When we decided to put our old house on the market, there were several things we needed to do to get ready. Each week there was a new area of focus for this preparation. One weekend, I decided to tackle the task of getting …