Articles by Art Fettig

Lately I have noticed that people have changed their manner of greeting me when I walk up to them at a yard sale or such. Over the years I have become accustomed to greetings like […]

In 1956 I graduated from The Christopher’s Leadership Course. It was a 6 week course in Public Speaking and our instructor, named Frank, was a Dale Carnegie instructor days but he was a volunteer in […]

I watched the movie Jumbo about a circus elephant and my wife Jean asked me “Art, did you see a circus very often when you were a kid?” And BOOM!!! It all came rushing back […]

Did you ever get the news that someone you’ve known for a long time had passed away and you got the feeling inside that that friend had just waited too long? Maybe it was that […]

It is strange, sometimes, when seeing something triggers your memory to something else that happened years, years ago. I recently pulled up an old movie on Turner Classic Movies named “Please Don’t Eat The Daisies.” […]

I was Thinking the other day about the difference in just doin’ your job and doing your job and then some. I was wondering if it could be said that the difference might mean just […]

I had an unusual experience while visiting Ayr Mount.  I met a fine artist from England. I’m not sure if he now lives here or was visiting. He just turned 80 and when I told […]

Did you ever go to describe something to somebody and as you did so you got a whole new look at what you were describing?  That happened to me the other day when I had […]

It was in mid-May, 1991 and I was on a small Air Canada scheduled flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia and as we approached for a landing there was a dense fog. The plane drifted down, […]