John Krut:  

Once upon a time, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away was the planet neshaminy langhorne. There I discovered many friends and a few good friends, much like today. The many friends passed into the mists of time but when I look thru the yearbook I still remember them; the good people, the kind people, the ones I looked forward to seeing every day. The good friends I still remember their names even after all this time and I have to admit it amazes me sometimes. So, what have I done since then? I don’t know how true it is that a person’s job defines them, but if it does then I would be a jack of all trades. Right after I got my diploma, that summer I began working for Pomeroy’s department store in the Levittown shopping center as a stock boy and I stayed there til December or thereabouts when I applied to US Steel and landed a job at the powerhouse there; I cleaned a lot of boilers and eventually got promoted to pump tender auxiliary and of my 2.5 years there I spent the last year driving thru the mill with a radio waiting for calls to start or stop or clean one of the huge air compressors. But, I did have a lot of time to read when I wasn’t being called and once I read a book that was so badly written I just knew I could do better and decided I should go to college to learn to be a better writer. Now you might realize that was a mistake but I didn’t know this at the time – a writer learns to be a better writer simply by writing but I went whole hog at it and was accepted at University of Arizona in Tucson where I studied for 1.5 years (when I ran out of money) and met some really good friends there including one young man named John Ebinger who played the bass guitar, and incidentally now plays double bass for the Phoenix philharmonic. Tucson was great, I used to drive an enduro motorcycle out into the desert for miles and miles and the desert is one beautiful place – from the center of Tucson you can be in the desert within 10 minutes and once met a prospector who told me about caves not on any map and even showed me how to get there. It’s a strange thing to walk into a cave not too many people know about and the one I explored had a room the size of a football field – and yes I got lost a few times ;) Anyways I had to work to make money to hopefully go back to school however work was not too easy to find, I worked at many jobs, three places as cooks, one place making bricks, oh and once as a salesman – we had to compete to be the leader and I ran from house to house to get the most leads. Anyway one day I was working at a restaurant and got a call from a lady I knew. I had left my pregnant cat with her and she had called to let me know the cat had given birth. I left work with a little excitement, curious to see the kittens as i drove down Miracle Mile. That was a fateful drive and it might have been better if I had paid more attention to that name. As I was driving a large truck made a left h...Expand for more