Business Cards

Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
October 26, 2009

In This Issue
o  Business Cards
o Say Something Good
o Visit Our Website
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
o To Subscribe

Business Cards

I ordered some new business cards recently and they arrived in the mail yesterday and they sure brought back memories of long ago. It was in February, 1961 in Battle Creek, Michigan and I’d given up alcohol and purchased an old Underwood Typewriter.  I was locked into a job with the railroad investigating tragedies and we had four children and my life was not going the way I wanted it to.  I ordered a box of business cards that said, “Art Fettig, Freelance Writer.”

We had a huge house and I went up in the attic and moved some stuff around and set up my office.  I bought a ream of paper and as someone once wrote, “I leaped on my horse and went off riding off in all directions.”  I had no clue where writing might take me but it was simply that at that time I could not, not write.  For me writing was a daily survival necessity like food and water. I had the good sense not to quit my day job.

Today, several million words later my book shelf is jammed with the books I have written. To celebrate my 80th birthday, I recently took a course in stand-up comedy and launched a new career portraying “Almost Andy” at the Mayberry Festival and experiencing the joy of doing comedy in the Andy Griffith Theatre, and so my new, four color business cards show me in my seersucker jacket saying “Almost Andy  Close enough for most.” I expect that life will offer me another exciting adventure.

Say Something Good

Mel Melton and the Wicked Mojos. They done good. Mel is famous around Louisiana and North Carolina for his fantastic Cajun cookin’ but yesterday he and his band were cookin’ with wonderful music at the Brookshire Nursing Center here in HIllsborough, North Carolina for the old folks and making many of them feel young again.The band started early and took just one break in two hours and performed with the same passion they would show at a giant concert in New Orleans.  Flat out is the only speed they know and it was wonderful to experience.  May God bless all those who work with the aged and all America and keep our troops from harm.

Visit Our Website

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Points To Ponder

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure. Jean Jacques    Rousseau

A Little Humor

A programmer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.” He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week.”

The programmer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you and do anything you want.” Again the programmer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess that I’ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?” The programmer said, “Look, I’m a programmer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend — but a talking frog, now that’s cool.”

Quote of the Week

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson