To Hell - and back

Sunday, May 31, 2026

lessons learned from Dyersville

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  On one of our trips between Minnesota and Illinois, we stopped in a town called Dyersville, Iowa, which was the setting for the 1989 movie...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

bulldozers at the White House

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  The  East Wing  was a portion of the  White House  complex in  Washington, D.C.  that was built in 1902, significantly expanded in 1942, a...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

How to start an argument

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    One of the first rules I learned when I joined Toastmasters International in the 1980’s was to try to avoid discussing religion or pol...
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Tom Brennan
Flagstaff, AZ, United States
I sold cars for The Autobarn of Evanston from February of 2005 until my retirement in July of 2011. Immediately prior to that, I was a college level English instructor in Guangzhou, China. Being Irish, I have long felt a compulsion to put down my thoughts on paper. After one of my customers published a few of my stories on HER blog site (Dwana), I eventually figured out how to publish stories on my own site. The first story (To Hell and back - on a bicycle) appeared on March 4,2009. The inspiration for the title is a man named Clayton Klein, an elderly Michigan man who walks from Paradise (Michigan) to Hell (Michigan) every year (a distance of 420 miles) to raise money for charity. His story, as well the bicycle ride that my daughter and I undertook in the summer of 2007, provided the starting point for what became the site titled tohell-and back.
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