The 3 Word Journal

I always thought it would be great to have a home with a little land with it. That is until we bought a home with almost three acres of yard. It turned out to be a huge headache and I spent much of my free time moving that yard. One day my father-in-law felt sorry [...]

One holiday I was looking forward to a restful day off since I had had several stressful days coming into it. My wife had gotten up very early to go walking with a friend. When she got home, I was still in bed. She said there was tree limbs and debris throughout the neighborhood caused [...]

While working for a company that sold business products, I received a call from one of my customers who was furious with our service department. She informed me that she had called for service on a copy machine on two different occasions and that no one ever came out. Their work had backed up because [...]

By Garrett Alan Oleen
The winter of 2004/2005 was right in the middle of a difficult time for me personally. I was working nearly 40 hours a week at a job that was only supposed to be part-time. I was a supervisor at the UPS facility in Belton, TX and I traveled 43 miles to work [...]

  When things get really hard, I often recall an experience I had while attending college many years ago in Idaho.  Because of a slight money shortage, my roommates and I got jobs in a potato cellar during harvest time.  Our job was to take a large pitch fork and shovel about 35 pounds of potatoes [...]