Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: loneliness

  • What I want my children to know about building human connection and avoiding loneliness

    My children are adults now, beginning to live their separate adult lives. I’ve been thinking a lot about my own start, and how lonely I was for a while. I had to work hard to make connections with other people. I wanted to give my children some advice from my experience about building and maintaining…

  • The Christmas bellwether

    This is the third in a short series of stories from 10 years ago. A sad story for Christmas Eve, but with a hopeful ending. Just one more story to go after this, next week. It seemed like a good idea at the time, having Christmas as a family. It was our last. I couldn’t see,…

  • A place to start

    This happened 25 years ago. I’ve told this story here twice before: in 2007 and 2011, but I rewrote it this time. Only the rough neighborhoods fit my budget. I’d just graduated from engineering school in Terre Haute and had landed a job in town, but times were tough and the pay was poor. On the…

  • A place to start

    In my last post I linked to a story about my first apartment. I wrote it when the blog was new and had few readers. I think it deserves another chance. I got my first apartment just before I turned 22. I had just graduated from engineering school in Terre Haute and had landed a…