“Ricky was a young boy. He had a heart of stone. Lived nine to five and he worked his fingers to the bone,” sang Skid Row through my headphones connected to my Sony Walkman. The sound of jump ropes and fans yelling in the stands filled the gym. I was busy staying warm andContinue reading “In honor of an old “friend” (nemesis) – a wrestling excerpt from Ch. 19 of NEVER SETTLED”
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I fell in love with 80s music—an excerpt from Ch. 15 of NEVER SETTLED
Initially, when we moved back to the plains of Colorado, we moved to a very small town called Deer Trail. Deer Trail is the Home of the World’s First Rodeo if that tells you anything about the kind of town that it is. Most of the streets in the town were dirt. Not gravel, butContinue reading “I fell in love with 80s music—an excerpt from Ch. 15 of NEVER SETTLED”
Shawn D. Congleton ~ author 