Al Russell
Stories (18/0)
Choices
One of the greatest gifts we have is the ability to have choices. What we choose and when we chose them will make a huge impact on your and possibly others lives. I as become older I understand more how the choices I made when I was younger are affecting me now.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Journal
Getting Fast Medical Treatment
Getting fast medical treatment doesn’t happen as fast as many would like. Waiting hours and hours just to get into a room and then waiting again to see a doctor. I did encounter fast attention and service one evening back in 1989. How does one get to be looked at and treated right away? This was not planned, then again, who plans an injury?
By Al Russell3 years ago in Fiction
How I learned to drive a stick
Many things can trigger a memory. A scent can take you back to another time. A song can make you remember things that you might have forgotten. An old photograph and the story behind it. Recently I had a memory triggered by a question asked on Facebook. What car did you learn to drive a stick in. This was something I really wanted to learn, and I had the perfect teacher.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Wheel
What Happened To Nascar?
Home in my apartment and bored to death, I was flipping channels trying to find something to watch. I can’t remember if it was March 1986 or November 1986, but it was at Atlanta Motor Speedway. A Nascar race being broadcast live. I had stopped on that channel and began watching as this blue and yellow car was just passing other cars at will. In March this driver finished 2nd, in the November race he finished 1st. This was when I became a Nascar fan and Dale Earnhardt Sr became my favorite driver.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Wheel
What's Next for the Mandalorian?
I finally finished watching the Mandalorian, both seasons, and I’m left with more questions. As last we saw it could go in so many different directions. My first thought was about Grogu (the child) and what becomes of him. I’m very curious on his origin. Is there a planet of Yoda type creatures that he somehow managed to be taken from? Why wasn’t anyone else looking for him? There was a reference to Grogu seeing the darksaber before. How did he escape?
By Al Russell3 years ago in Futurism
I'm Adopted
I have been told that I was born on an Amish farm on the west side of lower Michigan. I don’t remember much about that. What I do know is that I am adopted. I look at my brothers and sisters and I don’t look anything like them. My big brother is really big and different colors than me. My two sisters look completely different from me, one looks a little like my brother but the other one is much smaller. Then my other brother only has two legs and feathers. Tell me I’m not adopted; I don’t look like anyone here. Even my parents are different from me, only two legs and no tail. It’s ok, I know they love me. But that’s not my story, when I was real little, I was attack.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Petlife
Can't Drive 55
Ever since I could remember I always wanted to drive. Getting my driver license was the most important thing to me before I turned sixteen. Back then the school system offered driver training classes. I signed up and took the class. With my birthday being in May, I took the class in March and April. In Michigan we still had snowstorms and sure enough on one of my driving days with an instructor we had one. I remember being told to lose control of the car and then gain control back while in the school parking lot. That was one of the best lessons we could ever learn. I’m not afraid to drive in the snow, I know how to react.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Wheel
One Good Friend
If you are lucky, you will have at least one really good friend. If you are really lucky, that friend will be a dog. For my wife that dog was Elroy, for me it was my Katie. As I recall I didn’t want to bring another dog into our household. We already had two dogs and a cat, and I didn’t think another one was needed. Elroy and Virgil were going on seven and I never experienced having a pup to grow up with. My wife knew if I would see the pups, I would want one. She made arrangements to see a litter of pups and we had second pick.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Petlife
Buying Tires During a Pandemic
Tires, they make the world go round. Ok, maybe not the world, but your vehicle wouldn’t be able to move without them. Buying new tires never seemed to be a hard thing. My first set was a birthday present when I turned eighteen. When I graduated from high school, I was gifted a suitcase, hmmm new tires and a suitcase, think they were telling me something?
By Al Russell3 years ago in Wheel
It's Bristol Baby-March 1998
Most years in the nineties I couldn’t wait for mid-February and 1998 was no exception. Being a Nascar fan and a Dale Earnhardt Sr fan made this the biggest time of the year. It was finally time to start the season with the biggest race of the Nascar season, the Daytona 500. Earnhardt going into the 98 season had yet to win the Daytona 500. This time it would be different, yes in 1998 Dale Earnhardt Sr won the Daytona 500. With my mom passing away in Jan, Earnhardt’s victory was a wonderful way to help cheer me up.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Wheel
Surviving the Seventies
Surviving the seventies as a kid may not be as hard as you think. Yes, it’s true we didn’t have cell phones or computers, but we had this thing called friends. No, we actually knew who they were and spent time in person with them. Traveled to their houses and played outside. Phones were attached to the wall in the house and usually everyone wanted to use it at the same time. Yeah, one family, one line for the entire family. I came from a large family, five brothers and a sister along with mom and dad. The phone usually wasn’t the best way to communicate with your friends privately because someone was always nearby hearing your conversation.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Humans
The Dog knew
It wasn’t always dogs in my life. I remember a dog when I was little but when I was six, he was removed from the family. I don’t remember the reason, but I think he was rehomed to a family with a farm. It would be ten years before my love of dogs would be found again.
By Al Russell3 years ago in Petlife