No Loss for Words

When you grow up in a family where everyone has an opinion, it can’t be too surprising for some family members to end up sharing those opinions.  In my family, arguing was a sport.  My dad taught all us kids to “debate” each other and by the time we were twelve or thirteen we could take either side in an argument and still maintain our respectability.

Along with having an opinion, my dad taught us to put our money where our mouth is and be prepared to act if we offered an opinion.  He wasn’t fond of whiners.  He always said “Whiners are complainers without solutions!”  “If you have a problem with something, then tell me how you would make it better!”

Old Dad could never be sure we had any sense, but complaining without offering solutions is a waste of time for everyone.

My Dad lived a life of community service and he taught me the value of service early in my life.  I joined the Jaycees in 1969 and have been involved in service in one form or another since.  I served on the Snohomish City Council during the first eight years of the 1990’s and was appointed to the City Planning Commission thereafter and still serve today.

During my years on the city council I was elected Mayor three times and represented the city when Snohomish County Tomorrow was first started.  I was elected to the position of Vice-Chair from 1993 thru 1995.

I was a candidate for Snohomish County Council in 2009.  I did not prevail.

For 25 years, Noreen (my wife) and I owned and operated The HUB, a drive-in restaurant in Snohomish.  When it closed in 2010 I shifted my day job to real estate sales working at Century 21 North Homes Realty in Snohomish.  In 2019, I moved over to eXp Realty, a cloud based business with thousands of agents and very few bricks and mortar offices.

I am also a former member of the Snohomish Kiwanis Club.  They do great work serving the needs of kids in Snohomish and around the world.

Most regular readers know I started posting my writing here almost twenty years ago.  Then Facebook became my regular destination for my writing.  Most recently I started posting on Substack at  http://www.theteapartypundit.substack.com/ because of the exposure.  I’m trying to distribute a backlog of posts so some stuff shows up here on No Loss For Words and other posts end up over on Substack.

Being retired, I sit in my Lazyboy recliner watching the world go by and since I have the technical ability, I can sit there and shout into my computer and out pops posts for the internet.  Ain’t technology grand?

I no longer post full length essays on Facebook so you get the full treatment on my two platforms.