To Hell - and back

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Lessons learned from ice cream

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 Lessons learned from ice cream    In May of 2010, I published an article that explained how lessons learned from ice cream can help us get ...
Friday, July 10, 2026

sing us a song, you're the piano man

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Piano Man" is a fictionalized retelling of Billy Joel’s own struggles in 1972–73.   While hiding out in Los Angeles to escape a bad r...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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  Dick and Jane  We are still in the processing of unpacking boxes after our move to New Mexico.   Prior to the long drive from Tucson, we s...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

adventures in moving

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  Adventures in moving The average American moves about 11 to 12 times in their lifetime. Breaking this down mathematically over an average...
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...
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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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