by Dave Meir | Observations
Vacation is almost over. Back to the grind tomorrow. We’ve only been gone a week, but it’s interesting how you can miss the day-to-day comforts of home. You’ve probably read articles about people who were away from home for months or years –...
by Dave Meir | Non-Fiction, Writing Samples
Here’s Looking at You Kid Prologue In the late 1970s and very early 80’s I worked as a butcher for a local grocery store chain; the same stores where I’d worked almost full-time as a stock boy throughout high school. Five years spent grinding mountains of...
by Dave Meir | Non-Fiction
The Easter Rolex It occurs to me, as I struggle to write the opening of this story, how ignorant I can be. I’ve come to this realization – that may have been apparent to others all along – while thinking about how often I exist in my own little world....
by Dave Meir | Non-Fiction
Brotherly Love My older brother Michael hasn’t beat the living crap out of me for more than 50 years now. Lucky for him. In this day and age, they’d lock him up for that sort of thing. Fifty years ago he got by with a stern talking-to from Dad. Needless to say, I was...